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Australian Migration Patterns and Major events Timeline

By Melody Knight
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Indigenous Migration

    Indigenous Migration
    -40,000
    Indigenous Migration
  • Period: Mar 26, 1000 to

    time

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet
    Europeans arrive, ships, convicts, from England, UK wants to get rid of criminals becuase the prisons were overcrowded.

  • 79000 free settlers are in Australia

    79000 free settlers are in Australia
    Germans & Italians arrive

  • Golden Year

    Golden Year
    Gold Discovered in VIC, NSW, QLD. People moved to goldfields from Aus and over seas

  • Population

    Population
    Population almost tripled. most people lived in the city

  • Federation

    Federation

  • WW1

    WW1
    until 1918

  • 1800's Later early free settlers arrive

    1800's Later early free settlers arrive

  • today