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Feb 21, 1000
Arrival of Aboriginals
the Aborigines arrived about 50,000 years ago -
Period: Feb 21, 1000 to
colonisation of Australia
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Jul 22, 1100
aborigines exploring
The Aborigines started to learn the ways of the land like ochre paint fun fact did you know that ochre paint can not be washed off. -
Aug 12, 1400
European Exploration
Before the English officially landed on Botany Bay in 1788, there were many expeditions to find the Great Unknown South Land. -
Williem Janszoon set foot on Austrailian soil
The first European to discover was thought to have been Willem Jansz, a Dutchman who sailed along part of the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1606 and landed on Australian soil. -
Captain Cook
He was born in Marton, England and spent several years working for a shipbuilding firm before enlisting in the navy in 1755.During 1770 he discovered the east coast of Australia, which he charted and claimed for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales. -
The Endeavour
Captain James Cook would have never found New South Wales if it wasn't for his amazing ship the Endeavour on it's endless journey to the great south land. -
The First Fleet Leaves England
the First Fleet BTN review On the 13 may 1787 , the British government decided to start a convict settlement in New South Wales. This also allowed England to claim Australia and stop France or Spain from taking it. -
The First Fleet Arrives in Australia
The First Fleet of 11 ships, each one no larger than a Manly ferry, left Portsmouth in 1787 with more than 1480 men, women and children onboard. Although most were British, there were also African, American and French convicts. After a voyage of three months the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788. Here the Aboriginal people, who had lived in isolation for 40,000 years, met the British in an uneasy stand off at what is now known as Frenchmans Beach at La Perouse. -
First fleet sailor
'I'm so glad we are here people started to die and I was getting worried I'd die but I've got scurvy.' A sailor -
Aboriginies and the first fleet
"Who are they? They can't take over our land, they can't just turn up randomly on 11 huge boats, they just cut our totom tree.... I don't like these spirits". This is what I imagined a lot of Aboriginies would have thought about the British arrival -
First gold discovered in Australia
James McBrien was the first to discover a nugget of gold near Fisher River in NSW -
Eureka Stockade
Peter Lalor elected by miners in Ballarat. A rebellion starts in protest of police violence and mimers needing expensives licences and not being able to claim land. Many died. -
The Federation of Australia
Australia become an independant nation. The British Parlemement authorises the six Australian colonies to govern themselves. -
The Stolen Generation
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. The policies of child removal left a legacy of trauma and loss that continues to affect Indigenous communities, families and individuals. -
Australia In WW1
Following Great Britain into the war, the 1st Australian Division and the New Zealand Australian Division, were re-formed into the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps – the ANZACs, whist training in the egyptian desert in late 1914. -
WW1 weoponry
A soldier would have two weopons would be a bayonetit is a large dagger that can be put on to a gun if you didn't have the gun form you would have that and a rifle. An Officer would have a Revolver which is a pistol. 2 -3 people would arm the machne gun which was very useful. some soldiers would be armed with grenades. mortars were armed by 1-2 people. The Artilery was armed by 3-4 people it was a huge cannon. A Tank would be extremely useful protecting all soldiers in side. E.C.T -
World War 1 Weaponry 2
A Mine is a bomb dug in to the gruond and when the enemey steps on it it blows up . Barbed Wire is a weapon of protection the soldiers would souruond the Trenches. Flame throwers were used in WW1 by the Germansbut their were not many. Torpeados were like under water Missiles. -
Wave Hill Station Walk off
Vincent Lingiari, Gurindji leader, starts a protest against Lord Vestey 's company, a british landowner, because of the work conditions and the stealing of their land -
The handing back of the Gurindji Land
The strike , led by Vincent Lingiari, lasted 8 years. The protest eventualla resulted in the right of the Gurindji peolple gaining the land back. On that day the Prime minister Gough Whitlam pored the local sand onto Vincent's hand as a symbol of handing the Wave Hill Station back to the Gurindji people. It was the fist time Aboriginal Land Rights were recognised. -
Period: to
colonisation of Australia
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The British relationship
We still have a Queen, Queen Elizabeth, as our head of State.
We still have the royal family. The Commonwealth games.
We both have the Union Jack on our flag .
We are both in the Ashes .
We have many British Tourists such as the Queen.
We both have the same language.
We follow the samestyle of Government.
