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Before 1788 there were approximately 700 languages spoken throughout Australia with an estimated population of 750,000 people
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The Dutch East India Company, ship duyfken under Captain Willem Janszoom explored the Western Coast of Cape York Peninsula. This was the first recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil.
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The first fleet left Portsmouth in 1787 with more than 1480 men, women and children on-board. There was British, French, American and African Convicts that travelled from Portsmouth to Botany Bay.
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Most of the gold finds happened in Australia prior to 1851, but only the gold that was found from 1851 onwards created gold rushes.
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Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are taken from their families by Australian and State government agencies. This practice lasted 100 years
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Ned Kelly was an Australian Bush ranger of Irish decent, a bush ranger is an outlaw living in bush land
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Edmund Barton becomes the 1st Prime Minister of Australia; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General, the first parliament met in Parliament house, Melbourne
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Melbourne and Sydney both wanted to be the capital of Australia. After Federation in 1901 Canberra was declared the capital
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The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation. It went for 4 years.
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World War 2 is the 2nd war that Adolf Hitler was in charge of. involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Over 60 million people were killed, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).
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