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Captain James Cook
James Cook Born on 27 of October 1728 was the man who calmed Australia for Britain in 1770 on his ship the HMS Endeavour. Captain cook was a famous British explorer and a expert mapmaker .
He died at the age of 50 in 1779 by stabbing -
John Macarthur
Born on 1767 John MacArthur was a famous wool merchant who was on the $2 note yes there was a $2 note it was green like the $100 note but with a sheep on it and it had a 2 so why is he famous you might ask its because he made the woulds largest wool industries.
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First fleet
In 1781 the jail sells in Britain started filling up and Britain was looking for a place to put all of the convicts Great Britain decided to send the convicts to New South Wales so on May 13 1787 set of with 11 ships. 6 Convict ships Named Alexander,Charlotte,Friendship,Lady Penury,Prince of Wales and Scarborough,2 Navy ships named HMS Sirius and HMS supply and 3 supply ships named Golden Grove,Fishburn and borrowdale.
On January 20th 1788 the first fleet arrived in New South Wales -
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders is a big part of Australia’s history because he was the first person to sail around Australia.He was Born on March 16 1774. Matthew Flinders Got to Australia by sailing with a boat Named Providence. Matthews Adventure brought him to Australia.On July 20 1802 Matthew Flinders seat sail around Australia. On June 9 1803 Matthew Flinders finished his sail around australia.
Matthew Flinders died July 19th 1814 -
The First School in Australia
The First school In Australia. It was Named Newcastle school it was made by Henry Wrens ford it was a public school and was in New South wales and it is the oldest continuously ruining school in Australia. -
The first bank of Australia
The first bank Westpac Bank was made in 1817 it was called the bank of New south wales and everyone in australia could go to the bank. -
Australia gets Named Australia
Back in 1824 the first man to go around Matthew Flinders Australia asked the government if the county could be could Australia which is Latan for south instead of New Holland -
Peter Lalour
Peter Lalour was born in land and was apart of the Eureka rebellion
Back when the gold rush happen the government of Australia rased the miners fee so some miners made a rebellion to the fee and they chose Peter Lalour to be there leader at battle peter lost his arm but they onethe battle and the fee got lowered to 10$ a year -
Western Australia gets settled
On the 12 of August 1829 Western Australia was found and settled by Captain James Sterling on his boat the HMS Success.Perth was settled by free willing people unlike the rest of Australia so no convicts were sent there.There was conflicted between the settlers and the Aboriginals which ended up in the battle of Pinjarra -
Victoria Became a colony
The British Act of Parliament separating Port Phillip District from New South Wales, and naming the new colony Victoria and providing it with a Constitution, was signed by Queen Victoria on 5 August 1850 -
The Gold Rush
In 1851 the first Sightings of gold in Australia was found by Edward Hammond Hargraves the word spread about gold in Australia and people from Britain,Poland,Germany and California came to mine gold. In months the government Intended to triple the licence fee for mining from 1 to 3 a month from the start of January 1852.This decision angered the miners.They decided to elect Peter Lalor to lead them to battle so they can defend their rights.The government said it would be 1 a year for the fee. -
Ned Kelly
This maverick spirit murderer was born on December 1854. Ned Kelly was Australian bush ranger and gang leader bet he also did some crimes which murderer,Assault,theft,and Armed Robbery but why is he apart of history? Because Ned Kelly was significant to Australia’s history because he exemplified the independence and the maverick spirit of early Australians
He die in 1880 -
the Parliament house starts to gets built
On the 1st of January 1855 the first Australia Parliament house got built in Victoria on spring street it was opened in 1927 -
Britain stops sending People to Australia
• Western Australia's convict era came to an end with the cessation of penal transportation by Britain. In May 1865, the colony was advised of the change in British policy and told that Britain would send one convict ship in each of the years 1865, 1866 and 1867, after which transportation would cease. In accordance with this, the last convict ship to Western Australia, the Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868. -
Australian women get rights
Australia was the second county in the world to give women the rights to vote and the first county to give women the right to be elected so that both genders had the same rights.
