Early Australia

By ow-anne

  • Europeans arrived in Tasmania

    The first Europeans to see Tasmania and his crew. Abel Tasman was Dutch, and gave Tasmania a Dutch name, but this was later changed to van Diemen's land.

  • First convicts to Australia

    First convicts sent to Australia were the Britain and was between 1788 to 1668 about 162,000 convicts

  • closure of port Arthur penal settlement

    port Arthur penal settlement named in honour of LT- governor George Arthur

  • beginning of Australia the gold rush

    During the Australia the gold worked moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas been discovered.

  • ned Kelly's shootout at stringybark creek

    ned and his brother surprized two of the police at their camp held them up

  • federation of australia

    this in-depth paper explores the reason for federation. which the Australia people decide to join