Gold is discovered in southern Australia, launching the Victorian Gold Rush, so named because the influx of prospectors leads to the creation of a separate colony of Victoria later in the year. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
Peter Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of World History (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001), 581.
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