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Australia History

By ahmed.bangura@education.nsw.gov.au

  • 1604

    1604
    Enclosure acts began in Britain

  • 1606

    1606
    Willem Janzoon was the first known European to discover Australia in the ship called the Duyfken

  • 1775

    1775
    Convicts stopped being sent overseas to America.

  • 1760

    1760
    Steam powered machinery was invented.Industrial Revoulution began.

  • 1785

    1785
    House of commons decided NSW was suitable as a penal colony.

  • 1786

    1786
    Captin Author Phillip was chosen to lead the First Fleet.

  • 1787

    1787
    The First Fleet left on 13th May.

  • 1788

    1788
    Arthur Phillip was governor of the colony.

  • 1790

    1790
    Two more fleets arrived.

  • 1793

    1793
    First free colonists arrived.

  • 1800's

    1800's
    Huge growth in population poverty and crime.

  • 1810

    1810
    Governor Lachlan Macquarie arrived.Construction of roads and building began

  • 1901

    1901
    In 1901 Australia became an independent nation when the British government passed down a legislation allowing all the six colonies to govern in their own right as part of the commonwealth of Australia.

  • 1910

    1910
    The stolen generation, light skin Aboriginal people were taken away from their parents to learn the way of the white people.

  • 1911

    1911
    Australia wholly divided into six colonies.

  • 1914

    1914
    World war 1 begins and people age 18 or over can fight.