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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 4. januar 1859 / Time Line January 4, 1859

3. Januar 1859, 5. Januar 1859

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Tasmanien - britisk straffekoloni
Van Diemens Land - opkaldt efter Antonio van Diemen (1593-1645) ved det nederlandske Østindiske Kompagni, senere Tas-manien - beliggende syd for Australien, koloniseres fra New South Wales og bruges som britisk straffekoloni.
Litteratur: White, Charles: Convict life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
- Bathurst [N.S.W.] : White, 1899. - 710 s.
- http://archive.org/details/convictlifeinnew00whitrich
Narrative and recollections of Van Diemen's Land during a three years' captivity of Stephen S. Wright : together with an account of the Battle of Prescott [Battle of the Windmill [1838]] in which he was taken prisoner, his imprisonment in Canada, trial, condemnation and transportation to Austra-lia, his terrible sufferings in the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land and return to the United States : with a copious appendix embracing facts and documents relating to the patriot war, now first given to the public from the original notes and papers of Mr. Wright and other sources (1844). - http://archive.org/details/cihm_21930
I musik: Ewan MacColl: Van Diemen's Land, udateret.
'Recorded under the auspices of the English folk Dance and Song Society. HMV B.10259 OEA.16229.' Raretunes Archive.
- http://www.raretunes.org/recordings/van-diemens-land/
John Renbourn Group: Van Diemen's Land. Live In America, 1982.

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