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40,000 BCE
Aboriginees arrive
The first people came to Australia from South East Asia. -
480 BCE
Chinese sailors
Chinese sailors visited the continent. -
Willem Janszoon
The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon came to Australia. -
Abel Tasman
Abel Tasman arrived to Australia and the Dutch made maps of the north and west coasts of Australia. -
James Cook
James Cook landed on the east coast and said that Australia now belonged to Britain. Nobody asked Aboriginies about this. -
Convictis from Britain
Eleven ships 772 convicts reached Port Jackson (now Sydney).Until the 1780s Britain had sent convicts to the United States when it had too many of them for its prisons after the americans won the war of independence they had to find a new place -
More convicts and more people.
In 1803,convicts were sent to Tasmania too.
A few years later began to come from Britain to start a new life in South Australia,Victoria,Queensland and New South Wales. -
Gold
Gold was found in New South Wales and Victoria.Thousand of people went looking for gold. -
Population growth
From 400,000 population growth to 1,200,000 in ten years. With the gold came new roads and railways and growing cities. -
Federation of Australia
On 1 January 1901 the six Australian states — New South
Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western
Australia, and Tasmania - became one country. -
Period: to
Immigrants
After 1945 the Australian government realized that
Australia needed more people, and they opened the country
to immigrants. People still came from Britain, but others
came from countries like Italy, Greece, Germany, the
Netherlands, Turkey, and the Lebanon. Since 1945 more
than 6.5 million people have moved there.
