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Pre 1600
The First People are the first humans to live in Australia click on the link to learn more https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/13-historical-moments-that-shaped-australia/ -
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Australia's History
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William Dampier
William Dampier is the first Englishman to explore parts of the Australian coastline click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Captain Cook Claims Australia
Captain Cook explores the east coast of Australia click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Arthur Phillp
Convict cargo settlement at Sydeny Cove established by Arthur Phillip and he was appointed governor of New South Wales (NSW) click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The First Fleet
The First Fleet arrived in Port Jackson and established a settlement click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Smallpox epidemic
Smallpox was humanity's deadliest disease, though it is eradicated in the wild click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Coal discovered.
Coal discovered in Newcastle Australia click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Pemulwuy
Pemulwuy is an Aboriginal Warrior who resisted the incursion of white settlers click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Hawkesbury River massacre.
First acknowledged massacre of Aboriginal people by white settlers click on the link to learn more
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Botanist George Shaw
Botanist refers to Australia in published work click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Merino sheep introduced.
Merino Sheep came to Australia in 1797.Unlike other breeds, this Spanish variety was better suited to our climate and was a wool intimidating producer. There are around 63.7million sheep in Australia. The value of wool produced in Australia averages AU$3 billion dollars. The Australian Merino sheep accounts for 75% of sheep in Australia, producing one of the worlds best quality wool. -
George Shaw
George Shaw makes the first scientific description of the platypus https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
John MacArthur
By 1801, Macarthur was the largest sheep rearer in the colony. Wool proved to
be very valuable as it could be transported long distances to Europe click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Mathew Flinders
Circumnavigates the continent click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
First Post Office
First Australian post office for convicts, settlers and officia;ls arriving early colony of New South Wales was the only way could remain in contact with Britain click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Holey dollar
The economy of the colony of New South Wales was effected by a shortage of currency during its early years. Governor Lachlan Macquarie attempted to solve this by importing 40,000 silver Spanish eight-reale pieces click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The First Public Hostipal
Sydney Hospital occupies the site of the first public hospital in Australia, the Rum Hospital, which opened in 1816. In 1845 people gave donations to the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary, a instituted the previous year to provide medical care to the poor and under fed https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The First Bank in Australia
As a penal colony, the colony of New South Wales was meant to be economically self-sufficient but as the colony grew, it became apparent that formal financial institutions were needed to promote growth https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
First Bigge report published
Moreton Bay Penal colony was established as a place of banishment and punishment for re-offending convicts click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
First Free press
On 4 June 1824, Andrew Bent printed and gave out the Hobart Town Gazette without acceptance the of the censor. This was the first time a newspaper had been published in Australia without government authorisation click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Founding Of Brisbane
Moreton Bay Convict Settlement and Penal Colony was as a place of exile and punishment for re-offending convicts. Credit for the first Europeans to discover the Brisbane River and select the site for the town of Brisbane belongs to several people, including three ex-convicts click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Founding Of Perth
Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling on Whadjuk country as the capital of the Swan River Colony in 1829 click on the link to learn more https://https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The Black Line
From the first recorded contact between Europeans and Tasmania’s Aboriginal population in 1772, relations between the two peoples were aggressive. By 1830, a virtual state of war existed and many settlers were demanding that something decisive be done click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Quintus Servinton
A Tale Founded by a real occurrence , the first novel written and published in Australia, was printed in Hobart in 1830–31 click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Convict Transportation Peeks
Between 1788 and 1868, more than 162,000 convicts were moving to Australia. Of these, about 7000 arrived in 1833 alone click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Bourke Church Act
The Church Act reduced anger between the competing strands of Christianity present in the colony of New South Wales click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Myall Creek Massacre
Early in the day of 18 December 1838, seven men were publicly hanged at the Sydney Gaol. They were the first British subjects to be executed for killing Aboriginal people click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
New Zealand becomes a separate colony
The islands of New Zealand were separated from the Settlement of New South Wales and made a colony in their own right click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Cataraqui Shipwreck
Australia’s largest unhostile Maritime disaster took place in 1845 when the ship settler Cataraqui wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait, killing 400 people click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Leichhardt expedition
The German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is remembered for three extraordinary expeditions. In 1844, Leichhardt and his companions travelled nearly 5000 kilometres from the Darling Downs in south-east Queensland to Port Essington near what is now Darwin. -
NSW Native Police
In 1848 the New South Wales government set up a Native Police force, include of Aboriginal troopers under European officers. The Native Police would operate mainly in what is now southern Queensland, Aboriginal quelling resistance to European colony click the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Caroline Chrisholm
She became well known for her
humanitarian work and in 1849 Caroline founded the Family Colonisation Loan Society. In 1854 she met with Pope Pius IX, who gave her a papal Medal
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Founding Of Sydney University
The University of Sydney was Australia’s first university and among the first public, non-denominational and secular universities in the British Empire. In 1881, it admitted female students on an equal basis with men, one of the first universities in the world to do so click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Black Thursday Bushfires
On ‘Black Thursday’, 6 February 1851, European settlers in Victoria faced their first catastrophic bushfires, which burnt a quarter of the colony click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Separation of NSW and Victoria
On 1 July 1851 the Legislative Council of the newly created colony of Victoria was established. The partition of Port Phillip District from the colony of New South Wales had taken ten years from the presentation of the first petitions to government click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Gold Rushes
The discovery of gold in the 1850s started a series of rushes that transformed the Australian colonies the first discoveries of payable gold were at Ophir in New South Wales and then at Ballarat and Bendigo Creek in Victoria click on the link to learn more https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/13-historical-moments-that-shaped-australia/ -
Eureka Stockade
On 30 November 1854, miners from the Victorian town of Ballarat, disgruntled with the way the colonial government had been administering the goldfields, swore allegiance to the Southern Cross flag at Bakery Hill and built a stockade at the nearby Eureka diggings click on the link to learn more https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/13-historical-moments-that-shaped-australia/ -
Peter Lalor
Peter Fintan Lalor was an Irish-Australian rebel and, later, politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion, an event controversially identified with the "birth of democracy" in Australia click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
First Steam Railway
On 12 September 1854, the Melbourne and Hobson’s Bay Railway Company opened Australia’s first steam railway line in Melbourne. The 2.5-mile (about four-kilometre) track went from Flinders Street Station to Sandridge, now known as Port Melbourne click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Australian Rules Football
In the winter of 1858, students from Scotch College, Church of England Grammar (later Melbourne Grammar), and St Kilda Grammar competed against each other in several games of football. These matches are credited as the first organised games of Australian Rules football click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The First Stock Exchange
In the 18 October 1852 issue of the Argus, Edward Khull listed 14 companies in which investors could buy shares click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Rabbits Introduced
In 1859, European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Within 50 years, rabbits had spread across almost the entire continent, with devastating implications for Australia’s indigenous flora and fauna click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Islander labourers
In 1863, a group of 67 South Sea Islanders were brought to Queensland to perform manual labour in the cotton and sugar industries. They were the first of more than 62,000 Pacific Island men, women and children who were transported to Australia over the next 40 years. Some were kidnapped, or ‘blackbirded’, others were misled https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Burke’s and Wills
Robert O’Hara Burke, William John Wills, John King and Charles Gray became the first Europeans to cross Australia south to north when they reached the Gulf of Carpentaria in February 1861 click on the link to learn more https://www.dummies.com/education/history/world-history/key-dates-in-australian-history/ -
Robertson Land Acts
The Robertson Land Acts, passed in New South Wales in 1861, provided for the legal purchase and occupation of Crown lands click on the link to learn more https://www.dummies.com/education/history/world-history/key-dates-in-australian-history/ -
Melbourne Cup
On 7 November 1861, about 4000 people gathered at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne to watch a horserace that would become one of Australia’s most important sporting events click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Coranderrk
Coranderrk was established as a reserve for the aboriginal people of south-central Victoria, operated under Australia’s first administrative framework to ‘manage’ Aboriginal affairs, an approach later adopted throughout the country click on the link to learn more https://www.dummies.com/education/history/world-history/key-dates-in-australian-history/ -
The First Royal Visit
On 31 October 1867, Prince Alfred, second eldest son of Queen Victoria, landed in Adelaide. The Prince was the first member of the British royal family to visit Australia and attracted huge crowds wherever he went click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Convict Transportation
In 1849, the British Government authorised the conversion of Western Australia from a free settlement to a penal colony click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Australian Natives Association
The Australian Natives’ Association (ANA) lobbied strongly for the political union of Australia’s colonies at the time of Federation. It sought to shape Australia’s nationhood and identity and was a training ground for politicians click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Overland telegraph
On 22 August 1872, the construction of the Overland Telegraph line between Adelaide and Darwin was completed. It has been described as ‘the greatest engineering feat carried out in nineteenth century Australia click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Free Education introduced
After more than a decade of effort, the Victorian government wrested control of the colonial school system from religious denominations, and passed the Education Act 1872. click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
First National Park
Australia’s first national park — (now Royal) National Park — was created in 1879 just south of Sydney. It was only the second in the world click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
The Bulletin
With its first issue published in January 1880 and its last in 2008, The Bulletin remains one of Australia’s longest-running magazines click on the link to learn more https://www.dummies.com/education/history/world-history/key-dates-in-australian-history/ -
Ned Kelly’s Last Stand
On 28 June 1880, Victorian Police captured bushranger Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang — Dan Kelly, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart — were killed in the siege click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Founding Of BHP
In January 1885 Phillip Charly discovered the first significant silver deposit on the Broken Hill property, a mining claim staked by Charles Rasp in 1883. The Broken Hill would eventually generate more than $100 billion click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Victoria Employers Union
In 1885, the Victorian Employers’ Union (VEU) was founded in reaction to organised labour’s industrial action during the bootmakers’ strike the previous year click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Lawrence Hargrave’s First Flight
On 12 November 1894, Lawrence Hargrave, Australian inventor, astronomer, explorer and historian, connected four box kites of his own design click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Woman’s Suffrage
On 18 December 1894 the South Australian Parliament passed the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) act The legislation was the result of a decade-long struggle to include women in the electoral process click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Federation Drought
The Federation Drought (1895–1903) was the worst in Australia’s history, if measured by the enormous stock losses it caused. It ended squatter-dominated pastoralism in New South Wales and Queensland as bank foreclosures and the resumption of leases led to the partition of large stations for more intensive settlement and agricultural use click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline -
Australia’s
The first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in Athens from 5 to 10 April 1896 click on the link to learn more https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline
