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Period: 1497 to
Age of Discovery
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First British Empire
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James Cook claims eastern part of New Holland
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American War of Independence
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Second British Empire
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Colonial Wars/Conflicts
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First Fleet
Arthur Phillip arrives with First Fleet to establish new colony in Port Jackson as naval base and penal colony. A camp was set up and the flag raised at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, on 26 January 1788 -
Pemulwuy speared Phillips
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British settlement established in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
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Swan River Colony
The United Kingdom formally claimed the western part of Western Australia (the Swan River Colony) in 1828 -
Expansion of British colonisation into ‘unexplored’ lands - 'squatters'
1835 marks the commencement of the significant and wholesale expansion of British colonisation into hitherto remote and ‘unexplored’ lands. -
John Batman 'purchased' land in Narrm (that is now Melbourne)
John Batman 'purchased' land that is now Melbourne -
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Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate
Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate – 1838-51 -
Last convict ship arrived
A campaign by the settlers of New South Wales led to the end of convict transportation to that colony; the last convict ship arrived in 1848 -
Victorian Select Committee
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Simon Wonga, William Barak and Corranderk
Leaders of Warrandaree, negotiated to have Aboriginal land -
Aboriginal Protection Act
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Coniston Massacre
Near the Coniston cattle station in Northern Territory, Australia - last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian Frontier Wars. People of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye groups were killed. Occurred in revenge for the death of dingo hunter Frederick Brooks, killed by Aboriginal people in August 1928 at a place now known as Yukurru, also known as Brooks Soak. -
Australian referendum, (Aboriginals)
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Tent Embassy
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Report on Indigenous deaths in custody
Published in 1992 -
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Northern Territory Intervention
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Apology to the Stolen Generation