1800s to 1900s

By ptengaio10

  • 1800

    In the Colony of NSW men still outnumber women by an estimated 20 to 1

  • 1810

    There are now nearly 12,000 white people in the colnies of NSW and Van Diemen's Land.

  • 1820

    There are an estimated 24,000 white people in NSW.

  • 1840

    Transportation to Van Diemens Land is put on hold for two years, as too many convicts flooding into the colony, and the system is at breaking point.

  • 1850

    British Government gives in to popular demand and separates the new colony of Victoria from NSW.

  • 1860

    Victoria alone holds more people than its gold-rush rival, California.

  • 1870

    In Victoria a 'free, compulsory and secular' Education Act passed. All children over 6 must go to school

  • 1830

    Governor bourke of NSW introduces annual squatting license fees to regulate land use, and to try and stop squatters from killing indigenous Australians

  • 1880

    Throughout Australia, but especially NSW and Queensland, there are bureoning movements for land nationalisation, more militant trade unionism and socialism.

  • 1900

    On the 17th of September, Queen Victoria proclaimes the Commonweath of Autralia.

  • 1890

    Sir Henry Parkes, NSW premier and 'Father of Federation' says, 'The crimson. and the collapse of colonial governments in Victoria and New South Wales.