Australia Timeline

  • Willem Janszoom

    Willem Janszoom
    This handsome gentleman was a Dutch navigator and a colonial Governor who was first to discover Australia at Queensland in 1606 and then went agian 12 yrs later at West Coast.
  • The First Fleet

    The First Fleet
    The First Fleet was a voyage commandeered by Captain Arthur Philip from England to Australia in May 13 to find more land for the convicts in England to stay. This was a rough journey for the convicts with thrashing conditions and deaths here and there.
  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush
    Edward Hargraves was the first person in Australia to find Gold in Orange, NSW. Because of his find he started the Gold Rush in 1851 which attracted lots of tourist to go looking crazy for Gold. After Edward had found his Gold people stated finding pieces of Gold which were as tall as humans and would be priceless to offord.
  • Soliders land at Gallipoli

    Soliders land at Gallipoli
    On the 25 of April 1915, Gallipoli soldiers land at Gallipoli to capture the Turkish so they wouldn’t move through the narrow straits at Cape Hell’s.
  • Stolen Generation

    Stolen Generation
    The stolen Generation or the Stolen Children was when the Aboriginal children were stolen by the British to get teaches new languages and a different style of living which wouldn’t be hard. Just think if you were in their shoes and had to go through what they did, it would be a real big struggle and by that kids were trying to escape however they could just to be free.
  • Women Rights

    Women Rights
    Women rights is when the females in Australia had an equal share to all of us because women were treated way different as for how they weren’t allowed to vote, work and they were only allowed to cook for their husband and children. But eventually they came to a decision to make women equal to men which was a great decision for our economy.