-
Captain Cook
Explores Australia's east coast -
First Fleet
Arrives at Sdyney Cove -
First Public Mass
presented by Fr. Dixon -
Therry and Conolly,
the first official priests arrive -
Constrution
of the first Catholic church in Tasmania -
Bede Polding
becomes Australia's first Catholic Bishop -
New Zealand
becomes a British colony -
James Alepius Goold
becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne -
Mary McKillop and Fr. Julian Tenison Woods
found the Sisters of St. Joseph -
Dr. George Pell
is appointed as Archbishop of Melbourne