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A True History of Australia

By celA123
  • 70,000 BCE

    70000 Years Ago

    Future Australians leave Africa.
  • Period: 70,000 BCE to 50,000 BCE

    70000 Years Ago to 50000 Years Ago

    Native Africans leave Africa and come to Australia.
  • 60,000 BCE

    60000 Years Ago.

    60000 Years Ago.
    Indigenous Australians first stepped foot on Australia and made the first ocean crossing to Arnhem Land.
  • 50,000 BCE

    50000 to 60000 Years Ago

    50000 to 60000 Years Ago
    First evidence of occupation in Kakadu.
  • 50,000 BCE

    50000 to 30000 Years Ago

    50000 to 30000 Years Ago
    At that time, they had a massive trade economy that traded tools and food.
  • Period: 50,000 BCE to 25,000 BCE

    50000 Years to 25000 Years Ago

    Indigenous Australian culture.
  • 45,000 BCE

    45000 Years Ago

    A rock was carved out to be a cave with pillars and a stone archway.
  • 42,000 BCE

    42000 Years Ago

    42000 Years Ago
    The time Mungo Man was living. He was 6 foot tall and in his forties.
  • 40,000 BCE

    40000 Years Ago

    40000 Years Ago
    Painting of an extinct animals found in aboriginal cave paintings.
  • 35,000 BCE

    35000 Years to 25000 Years Ago

    35000 Years to 25000 Years Ago
    Intricate rock carvings were made since this time.
  • 35,000 BCE

    35000 Years Ago

    35000 Years Ago
    They developed agricultural tools and knifes.
  • Period: to

    1780 to Present Day

    Australia is colonised by Europeans and big political things change Aboriginal lives.

  • 1780

    1780
    British naval officer and explorer, Captain Cook, claims Australia as British land after sighting it off the mast of his ship.

  • 1788

    1788
    Australia is colonised by British captain, Arthur Phillip, who later becomes the governor of the colony. British authorities said that Australia was uncolonised when Indigenous Australians were clearly settled there long ago.

  • 1789

    1789
    Arthur Phillip captures young Aboriginal man, Bennelong, to act as a translate and a bridge between the two very different cultures.

  • 1859 to 1974

    1859 to 1974
    From 1859 to 1974 it was legal to massacre Aboriginals.

  • 1901

    1901
    Australia became a federal country after all the states and territories joined together.

  • 1910 to 1970

    1910 to 1970
    From 1910 to 1970 it was legal to steal Aboriginal children to make them "white".

  • 2008

    2008
    The sorry speech was formerly made in 2008 by Kevin Rudd.

  • 2014

    2014
    A book named Dark Emu was written by Bruce Pascoe and it gave information about the true life of Indigenous Australians.