What are facts about the Gold Rush of California?

Answer 1

The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.

Yes.

Most of the people who came to Calofornia took the oragan trail. The gold seekers were called 49'rs beacuase they came in1849.

It was in 1849. Many people did not find gold, but settled in California after the gold rush ended

Answer 2

The gold rush in Australia began tentatively with the first strike of payable gold near Ophir in NSW. Less than three months after gold was "officially" discovered at Ophir in 1851, Victoria had its first gold strike at Sovereign Hill near Ballarat, in the same month it gained its independence from the NSW colony. While the Ballarat goldfields were rich and promising, the real goldrush began when gold was discovered at Mt Alexander, 60km northeast of Ballarat, and close to the town of Bendigo, in August 1851.

During the goldrush years, gold was found in each state of Australia and also the Northern Territory.

• Gold was found in New South Wales in towns around the Bathurst area in 1851, including Ophir, Lucknow, Sofala and Hill End. It was also found in other places such as Young and Bingara.
• The first gold in Victoria was found in Clunes on 11 June 1851, by James Esmond. However, on 9 August 1851, Victoria's goldrush began tentatively when gold was found at Sovereign Hill near Ballarat, in the same month Victoria gained its independence from the NSW colony. While the Ballarat goldfields were rich and promising, the real goldrush began when gold was discovered at Mt Alexander, 60km northeast of Ballarat, and close to the town of Bendigo, a few months later.
• In South Australia, gold was not as important in the state's economic development, but gold was still found in numerous places, such as Castambul in January 1846, and later on, Blinman, Yudanamutana, Beltana and other places.
• In 1852, small traces of gold were found at Lucky Valley, Kilkivan and Warwick. Queensland's first significant goldrush was at Canoona, near Rockhampton, in 1858, but the goldrush started in earnest when James Nash discovered Queensland's two largest nuggets in a gully off the Mary River near Gympie in October 1867.

  Other places where gold was found in Queensland include regions around Sarina, Bowen, Charters Towers, Mount Coolon, Ravenswood, Forsayth, Kidston, Georgetown and Croydon.

• The first payable gold was discovered in Tasmania in February 1852, at Tullochgorum in Tasmania's east.
• In 1892, gold was found at Coolgardie, Western Australia, sparking off the gold rush in Western Australia.
• The Northern Territory also had its own goldrushes near the Finniss River in 1865. Later discoveries followed, including Yam Creek, Cullen River, Gandy's Gully, Pine Creek and then Tennant Creek in the 1930s.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants came to Australia for the goldrushes in the mid 1800s. At the beginning of the goldrush, in 1851, Australia's population was about 430,000. Twenty years later, in 1871, the population had trebled to 1.7 million. This was an increase of 1.27 million.