Australia

By w.boroy

  • Discovery of Australia

    The Dutch East India Company ship, Duyfken, led by Willem Janszoon, made the first documented European landing in Australia in 1606

  • First fleet of British ships

    The First Fleet of 11 ships, each one no larger than a Manly ferry, left Portsmouth in 1787 with more than 1480 men, women and children onboard. Although most were British, there were also African, American and French convicts. After a voyage of three months the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788
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    The black war

  • The gold rush

    The discovery of gold sent a shock wave through Colonial Australia. In 1851, Edward Hargraves convinced the people of Sydney that there was payable gold just outside of Bathurst in New South Wales

  • The Eureka Stockade

  • The commonwealth of Australia

  • The stolen generation

  • WWI - Invasion of Turkey

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    Air raids of Australia

  • The Opera House

  • Complete independence from Britain

  • Official apology to the Stolen Generation