Talk:History of Tasmania

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Contents 1 Date of name change 2 Information 3 Disambiguation repair 4 Pre-history, not history

[edit] Date of name change

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)

[edit] Information

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)

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And another link with a wealth of information, that I will one day try and incorporate into this article. It's mainly to do with Matthew Kneale's The English Passengers, a must read for any Tasmanian.. Jgritz 2 July 2005 18:45 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation repair

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)

[edit] Pre-history, not history

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)