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Australia gets claimed
Britain claims the inhabited lands of Australia -
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A few massares of the Aborigines
a couple of massacres that took place to get rid of the Aborigine people over minor disputes -
New South Wales is established
the first fleet carrying 850 convicts along with their guards settle in Australia to help with overcrowding in prisons -
Smallpox Appears
smallpox appears in Sydney -
Australia gets named
Matthew Flinders records Australia on maps and in his writings -
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The Rum Rebellion
a coup d'état in New South Wales to overthrow governor, William Bligh -
First currency of NSW
the holey dollar is created by stamping the center out of Spanish coins -
First public hospital
the Rum Hospital opens to the public -
First Bank
The bank of New South Wales open in Sydney -
Brisbane is founded
Moreton Bay is established as a convict settlement and penal colony to exile and punish re-offending convicts -
Perth is founded
founded by Captain James Stirling, it's the capital of the Swan River Colony -
Assisted Immigration
British and Australian governments pay for 1,000 s of migrants to move to Australia -
New Zealand separates
Islands of New Zealand separate from New South Wales to become an independent colony of their own -
Sydney University
Sydney university is founded and public -
Black Thursday
first catastrophic bush fires burn a quarter of the colony -
Gold is found in NSW
a prospector finds flakes in a waterhole near Bathurst, South New Wales and then found again later in Victoria -
Eureka Stockade
miners get mad at the way the government is administering gold fields so they built a stockade at nearby diggings -
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More Massacres of the Aborigines
to "teach them a lesson" caused by disputes over land, animal theft, etc.