Australian Colonisation

By Abbeystar

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet
    First Fleet sails from England

  • HMS Supply

    HMS Supply
    HMS Supply arrives in Botany Bay

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet
    The rest of the first fleet arrives in Botany Bay

  • Discovery of Port Jackson

    Discovery of Port Jackson
    Arthur Phillip discovers Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)

  • The First Fleet

    The First Fleet
    On 26 fo Jan 1788 the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay

  • settlement at Port Jackson

    settlement at Port Jackson
    The first fleet moved from Botany Bay to Port Jackson to start a settlement.

  • First Fleet arrives

    First Fleet arrives
    First Fleet arrives in Sydney Cove
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    Port Jackson Settlement

    First Fleet moved from Botany Bay to Port Jackon to start a settlement

  • Lieutenant King

    Lieutenant King
    Lieutenant King sails to Norfolk Island

  • One of the ships from the first fleet

    One of the ships from the first fleet
    One of the ships from the first fleet sails for Norfolk.
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    Australian Colonisation

  • Captain Arthur Phillip

    Captain Arthur Phillip
    Captain arthur Phillip is appointed Governor of NSW

  • Drought, starvation and sickness

    Drought, starvation and sickness
    1789 - 1792 There is drought, starvation and sickness in the colony

  • Smallpox Epidemic

    Smallpox Epidemic
    April to September a smallpox epidemic strikes the Eora people

  • 2nd Fleet Arrives

    2nd Fleet Arrives
    The second fleet arrives bringing 1,000 sick and starving convicts

  • Captain Phillip

    Captain Phillip
    Captain Phillip is wounded by a Eora man

  • Third Fleet Arrives

    Third Fleet Arrives
    Between September and Otober the Third Fleet arrives bringing 2,000 more convicts

  • Governor Phillip

    Governor Phillip
    Governor Phillip leaves Australia for England

  • The first attempt at settlement in Victoria

    The first attempt at settlement in Victoria
    The first attpt at settlement in Victoria was ade by Lieutenant David Collins and his party of soldiers and convicts

  • Tasmania established

    Tasmania established
    The colony of Van Diemen's Land was established and changed to Tasmania on 01/01/1856

  • Western Australia is established

    Western Australia was establihed in 1827. Major Edmund Lockyer established a British settlement and in 1829 the new swan river colony was officially announced and Captain James Stirling was its first governer. www.http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia

  • South Australia was established

    South Australia was established
    http://www.aushistorytimeline.com/

  • First official discovery of gold

    Edward Hargraves discovered a grain of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst.
    http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia