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First European sighting
Willem Janszoon first sighted Australia on 1606 on the ship
Gulf of Carpentaria, amd landed in sula (Queensland) -
Captain cooks landing
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Gallery Kurnell Peninsula Headland, in Botany Bay, is the site where Lieutenant James Cook first set foot on Australian soil in 1770, forging the beginning of British settlement in Australia. -
Landing of the 1st fleet
The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that left Great Britain, bound for Australia, on 13 May 1787. The journey took 252 days and the route was via Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro to the Cape of Good Hope.[1] The 1044 passengers aboard the ships included officers, their wives and children, some free settlers and 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts. -
Autralia Day
Celebrated annually on 26 January, the date commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, New South Wales in 1788 and the proclamation at that time of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia (then known as New Holland).[2] -
City of Swan River created
Although Dutch explorers had travelled up the Swan River as far as the site of Perth in 1697, it was not until the French expedition of 1801 that Europeans reached the Swan Valley. -
Colony of Victoria created
After the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788, Australia was divided into an eastern half named New South Wales and a western half named New Holland, under the administration of the colonial government in Sydney. The first European settlement in the area later known as Victoria was established in October 1803 under Lieutenant-Governor David Collins at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip. -
Rum Rebellion
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history. During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion.[1] The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia. -
settlement of Vandiemans land
Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. -
Convict transportation ens
The anti-transportation movement was one of the first and strongest political movements that bound the people of Sydney. Henry (later Sir Henry) Parkes cut his political teeth in the anti-transportation speeches of the late 1840s -
Gold Rush
The Australian gold rushes were a period of significant migration of workers, both more locally and from overseas, to areas which had discoveries of gold deposits. There were a number of discoveries of gold in Australia prior to 1851, but it is only the discoveries from 1851 onwards which created gold rushes. -
Eureka Stockade
A historically significant organised rebellion of gold miners of Ballarat against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. -
Australian Federation
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. -
World War 1
World war one was a world war the was centered in Europe. It was also called the great war -
World War 1 ends
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World War 2
world war 2 also known as the Second World War with over 100million people serving and 30 different countries. -
World War 2 ends
