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Australia's History

By macifitzner

  • 1770

    1770
    James Cook sailed around Australia. Named the area: New South Wales and took the land from the Aborigines and claimed it for England.

  • 1787

    1787
    British ships (First Fleet) left England with convicts to establish prison colony

  • 1788

    1788
    1788-1832
    New South Wales is officially a penal colony

  • 1830s

    1830s
    Remanding Aborigines were moved from the areas to reserves. European settlers separated them from society.

  • 1833

    1833
    Port Arthur, Tasmania is the home for the hardest of convicts.

  • 1868

    1868
    British transported prisoners to Australia until
    1868.

  • 1901

    1901
    January 1, 1901: the Commonwealth of
    Australia was established.

  • 1927

    1927
    Melbourne served as the national capital until
    Canberra was completed in 1927

  • 1967

    1967
    1967: federal government began to pass legislation to help
    the Aborigines

  • 1986

    1986
    1986: Australia Act -all legal ties with the
    British Empire were severed