1790s in Australia

Pemulwuy (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; 1750 – 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Nation, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for his resistance to British colonisation which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788.