Austrailian Timeline

By GAchick0901

  • Exploration and Colonization

    Exploration and Colonization
    -A Brittish explorer named James Cook claimed Australia and New Zealand for Great Britian and created an intrest for the rest of the reigon.

  • Colonization Begins

    Colonization Begins
    -Brittish settlement of Australia began

  • New Discoveries and New Hights

    New Discoveries and New Hights
    -Colonists discovered gold and the population reached new hights

  • Ayers Rock

    Ayers Rock
    Ayers rock is discovered or first sighted

  • The Pacific Islands are Controlled

    The Pacific Islands are Controlled
    • The U.S, France, Great Britian, and Japan all controlled the Pacific Islands

  • FREEDOM

    FREEDOM
    Australia and New Zealand gained their independence
  • Period: to

    Ethnocentrism

    brittish colonists took aboriginal children away from their families and forced them to live in istitutions or with white families

  • Small but independent

    Small but independent
    most of the pacific islands won independence peacefully in the second half of the 1900's

  • Victory for Samoa

    Victory for Samoa
    The nonviolent Mau movement worked for independence, which Samoa won in 1962

  • Growing Cultures

    Growing Cultures
    growing numbers of asians and pacific islanders have moved to australia and new zealand