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Australian History

By Corey98

  • Captain Cook sights the eastern coast of Australia

    On the 20th of April Captain Cook, on the endeavour, makes the first european sighting of the eastern coast of Australia.

  • Captain Cook sails into Botany Bay

    On the 29th of April, the Endeavour enters Botany Bay

  • Joseph Banks recommends Botany Bay

    Joseph Banks strongly recommends Botany Bay as a suitable place for a penal settlement to an English Parliamentary committee.

  • Britian claims Australia

    Britian assuming that the aborigibes had no claims to the land as a 'wondering people', announces that settlement shall be made at New South Wales

  • Arrival of convicts

    Arrival of 543 convict me and 189 women in the first fleet, under Governor Athur Phillip, first at Botany Bay, then at Sydney Cove

  • Second Fleet arrives

    The second fleet known as the 'Death Fleet' arrives with enough supplies to end the famine.

  • First major gold strikes

    First major gold strikes, with gold found near Bathurst NSW, then in Victoria near what would be called Ballarat

  • First recoreded game of Australian Rules Football

    First recoreded game of Australian Rules Football takes place between schoolboys - Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar

  • Queensland separates from New South Wales

    Queensland separates from New South Wales, becoming the only Australian colony to begin life wih its own parliament instead of first spendin gitme as a Crown Colony

  • First Melbourne Cup horse race

    First Melbourne Cup horse race. The Sydney outsider, Archer, wins the prize - 710 gold sovereigns and a hand beaten gold watch

  • First test match played

    First test match played between Australia and England at the MCG in Melbourne. Australia wins

  • Australia life begins as Australia

    Australia life begins as Australia. The commonwelth is born

  • First world war starts

    First world war starts. Within hours, Australia declares itself at war on the side of the British Empire.

  • Gallipoli

    Australian soldiers fight at Gallipoli as part of a brave but futile attemp to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (Istanbul)

  • First world war ends

    The first world war ends on what will become remembered as Armistice Day

  • Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

    Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It will be another ten years before the bridge opens

  • Sydney Harour Bridge opens

    Sydney Harour Bridge opens

  • Second World War begins

    Second World War begins

  • Second World War ends

    Second World War ends

  • Olympics held in Melbourne

    Olympics held in Melbourne and black and white television begins transmission in Australia

  • Queen Elizabeth opens Sydney Opera House

    Queen Elizabeth opens Sydney Opera House

  • Cyclone Tracey

    On Christmas Eve, cyclone tracey devastastes the city of Darwin