Talk:History of Tasmania

message: I noticed in the timeline the date given for the name change was 1856. On the documenting democracy website there's a order-in-council document from 1855that changes the name to tasmania. Should this be changed on the timeline to 1855 or is there some reason why it's 1856? jgillett
:It was not proclaimed until 1 January 1856 (allow time between the document written in England to its arrival in Australia - a voyage of several months) --Astrokey44 10:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of name change

message: It is a misquote to say that "most people thought that the last surviving Tasmanian Aborigine was Trugernanner,[2] who died in 1876."  Early history books taught that the last "full blooded" aborigine was "Truganini". It is still accepted that, Trugernanner (1812–1876) and Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834–1905), were the last people solely of Tasmanian descent.  It was never taught that there were no descendants from the original Tasmanians.  Many Tasmanian families know and acknowledge their Tasmania ancestors.        — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.249.132 (talk) 10:32, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Misinformation

message: There's some good information here that is supposedly under a creative commons license. Maybe we could incorporate some of this? Jgritz 13:21, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Information

message: Evenin' all.  I have removed the link to dab from this entry:
*1894 - Hobart international exhibition opens
I am unsure of the type of exhibition, but it struck me this was after a definition not a type, and the dab page does not do that.  If there is a better direct link (just check out the dab page) please correct my temporary insanity.  LeeG 18:56, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation repair

message: It is erroneous to say that the history of any place started at any time before there were written records of that place. Hence the history of Tasmania, as opposed to its pre-history, starts when eye witnesses wrote down in some language what it is that they saw. If Abel Tasman wrote down what he saw in Dutch that is Tasmanian history; geological events in 10,000 BC are not. Oral myths and legends are part of pre-history, not history. Or what do you think the term "pre-historic" means in English? 62.134.80.136 02:38, 22 August 2006
:The History article says "History is the study of the past". It is therefore not erroneous to say the history of any place started before written records. The Prehistory article says "Prehistory is a term often used to describe the period before written history" but we are not choosing to use that term here. Barrylb (talk) 15:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-history, not history 

message: This article is more of a timeline than anything else, perhaps the title should be chaned to reflect that or reformatted to reflect its current title? - Bozzio (talk) 08:26, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename? 

message: British colonisation of Tasmania got prod'ed. I'd prefer to see the content merged to here. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 17:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I will help.  History of Queensland was recently converted from points to prose.  The division by decades could be scrapped. - Shiftchange (talk) 04:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Shiftchange.  I've made an attempt to start doing a paragraph at the time but I'm struggling as to where to begin.  I'm thinking that keeping the paragraphs split by decades for now is the easiest way?  So far as sourcing goes, I remember a lot of came from a series of booklets that The Mercury distributed around the time of either Hobart's bicentennary.  So far as what *their* sources were, I'm not sure.  However most of these facts should easily be able to be referenced by alternate sources online. -- Chuq (talk) 03:47, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I am removing the split tag because it is not needed. An article History of Tasmania can just be created and this article linked to it when appropriate. Op47 (talk) 14:16, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split tag