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Settlement
Britain, thought that the aboriginies had no rights to the land as they were known as 'wondering people', announces that a settlement shall be made at NSW. -
First Australian Fleet
The First Fleet is the 11 ships which left Great Britain on the 13th of May,1787, to found a penal colony that would become the first European settlement in Australia. The fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports, carrying more than 1,000 convicts, marines and seamen. -
The first fleet
The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay but the landing party was not impressed with the site, and moved the fleet to Port Jackson, landing in Sydney Cove on 26 Jan. 1788 (now celebrated as Australia Day). -
Coastline on Australia
After the troubles and hardships of the early years, the adminstration were pushing to find out more about what lay beyond the shores and coastline of Australia. -
First hanging of convict
first conict hanged for stealing provisions -
Shipwreck
A british ship coming from with supllies from the new colony hits an iceburg and sinks. -
Given land
first convict given land to farm at rose hill. Now known as parramatta. -
Striked
As supplies run low, famine strikes the colony and nearly a quater of the settlement die. -
First ship of the third fleet
The first ship of the Third Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove. The Third Fleet comprised 11 ships that set sail from the United Kingdom in February, March and April 1791, bound for the Sydney penal settlement, with more than 2,000 convicts aboard. -
Governor Phillip
Governor Phillip left Sydney in December 1792. By then the settlement had survived its first and worst five years. Sydney was a rough place but it was still there and growing. -
First female
The first female convicts arrived in Van Dieman's Land in 1803. -
Tasmania is found
Hobart Town (Tasmania) is established . -
12,000 people in Van Diemans Land
There bare now nearly 12,000 white people in the colonies and Van Diemans Land -
White people in NSW
There are an estimate of about 24,000 white people in NSW recored at this time. -
More white people
The colonial census shows and increase of white people of nearly 40,000. -
Murray river
Sturt charts the Murray River. -
The British convince
the British province of South Australia was established. In 1842 it became a crown colony and on 22 July 1861 its area was extended westwards to its present boundary and more area was taken from New South Wales. South Australia was never a British convict colony and between 1836-1840 about 13,400 immigrants arrived in the area. 24,900 more arrived between 1841-1850. Some escaped convicts did settle in the area and no doubt a number of ex-convicts moved there from other colonies. -
First elections
First elections for Legislative Council in New South Wales, the colony is on the road to democracy and representitive government. -
Bushrangers
In the early days of Australia’s history, bushrangers roamed the countryside. They lived by stealing horses, holding up farms and travelers and robbing banks and stores. Many were escaped convicts. Others were just young men looking for adventure and freedom from the boredom of everyday work. -
The gold rush
The gold rushes in the second half of the 19th century would completely change the face of Australia. Before 1851, Australia combined white population was approximately 77,000. Most of those had been convicts sent by ship over the previous seventy years. -
Victoria and NSW split
British Government gives into popular demand and separtes the new colony of Victoria from NSW. -
Sentenced to Wales
By 1852, about 1,800 of the convicts had been sentenced in Wales. Many who were sent there could only speak Welsh, so as well as being exiled to a strange country they were unable to speak with most of their fellow convicts. -
Men voting
Men are granted the right to vote- if they're white, pay rent or own their own homes. The four eastern and central colonies - NSW, SA, Victoria and Tasmania became self-governing. -
First Melbourne cup
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The last convicts to Australia
The last transport to bring convicts to Australia landed at Fremantle on the 10th of January, 1868. Pressure from the eastern colonies, together with the rising costs of keeping the system going, prompted the British government to announce in 1865 that after three years, no more convicts would be sent to Australia. The approximate number of convicts sent to the Australian colonies during the period of transportation has been 160,500, of whom 24,700 were women. -
Aboriginals enrolled
The first Aboriginal children are enrolled in public schools in NSW -
Ned Kelly was hanged
The bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged. Some consider him to be a murderous villain, while others view him as a folk hero and Australia's equivalent of Robin Hood. -
VFL started
Based solely within Victoria from the time it was established in 1897. -
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria proclaims the commonwealth of Australia -
Federation
