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First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.
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Cook drops anchor on Endeavour in a wide bay, about 16 km south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Joseph Banks, discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook names the place Botany Bay.
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James Cook claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.
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Deciding that Botany Bay was unsuitable for settlement they found another bay which is called Sydney bay and the first colony in Australia
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First free settlers arrived to Australia for new hopes and a new life
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The British established a penal settlement there in 1803, founding Hobart in the following year. More than 70,000 convicts were sent there between 1803 and 1853.
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At that time half of the citizens in the Australia was born there
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The new province Victoria is set up named after the Queen Victoria for a reference to her. Furthermore with the discovery of gold (1851 gold rush), new settlers arrived. Population is now nearly half a million.
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four out of the five province granted for self government. They were doing most of the affairs by themselves but still connected to Britian
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After the self government of the 4 colonies sixth and the last of the colony created which is known for Queensland
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After 31 years of the last colony Queensland now all of the provinces are self government
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Now 80% of the Australians born there
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From now on Australia called the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which came into effect on 1 January 1901. The Constitution established a federal Parliament which could make laws on behalf of the new Australian nation)
