History of Australia

By aaronranchdip
  • 1770 BCE

    1770 Captain James Cook

    1770 Captain James Cook
    In 1770 Captain James Cook discovered and settled in Australia and claimed it to be New South Whales.

  • 1787

    1787
    1787 British sent the "First Fleet" to make Australia a Penal Colony.

  • 1830

    1830
    Natives were forced onto reservations

  • 1833-1850

    1833-1850
    The worst convicts went to Port Arthur Australia

  • 1868

    1868
    In 1868 the British stopped using Australia as a penal colony

  • 1901

    1901
    1901 The commonwealth of Australia was established

  • 1927

    1927
    Canberra became the capital of Australia

  • 1967

    1967
    The government made laws to try and help the Aborigines

  • 1986

    1986
    All legal ties with the British Empire were severed from Australia.

  • 1999

    1999
    Australian citizens denied an independent government and kept a Monarch.