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William Janz
Dutchmen William Janz and his ship Duyfken, made a voyage of exploration from Indonesia to the shoes or Cape York in north east Australia. They were the first Europeans to have contact with the indigenous Australians and the is a confrontation between the groups. -
Convicts Arrive
26 of January 1788 the first European convicts from England arrived in Australia to find not as they were had expected 500,000 indigenous Aboriginal people whose ancestors had lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years. -
New Supplies
The Laddie Juliana, a ship of 226 female convicts arrive with the first supplies to support the NSW colony since settlement in 1788. The hungry population welcome the limited supplies and the new female convicts. -
Commercial Trade
The first shipment of commercial Merino wool leaves Sydney to England. By 2000, 80% of Merino wool will come from Australia, -
First City Council
First city council was in Adelaide on the 8th of October 1840
followed by Sydney in 1842. Men must own a property with £1000 to stand in an election. Also wealthy land owners had up to four votes each. -
Gold Rush
In 1851, gold-seekers from around the world began pouring into New South Wales. The gold rush expanded Australia population, boosted economy and led to a new kind of national identity. A key person to the discovery of the gold rush was Edward Hardgraves. He had come from the California gold fields to New South Wales determined to find gold. He travelled to Bathurst where he met some men that had founds specks of gold. He taught them how to build washing cradles and then returned to Sydney. -
Eureka Stockade
The Eureka Stockade rebellion started in 1854. It came about because The Australian Government brought in an a licence you needed to pay for to be able to dig for gold. Most diggers struggled to pay the money. This bought up complaints and arguments started to take place. -
Lambing Flat Riots
The Lambing Flat riots were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales. The worst violence against Chinese miners was in centrel New South Wales. European diggers were angry by the Chinese and their apparent wastage of water when extracting gold. With a week police presence they were unable to control the situation. Six anti Chinese riots occurred with a space of 10 months