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Willem Jansz lands near Cape York
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Dirk Harthog lands on the coast of WA
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Abel Tasman lands in Tasmania
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William Dampier lands in WA.
He writes a book about his travels. -
James Cook lands on the east coast.
English interrest grows. -
American war of independence
no more english convicts can be sent to America -
Joseph Banks recommends NSW as a good place for a penal colony
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First fleet arrives.
Settlement established at Sydney Cove -
Food supply runs danagerously low
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Bass and Flinders sail around Tasmania, proving it to be an island
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Mattthew Flinders circumnavigates and maps Australia
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Settlement begun in Tasmania
Short-lived settlement in Victoria -
Govener William Bligh deposed in the Rum Rebbellion
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Blaxland,Lawson and Wentworth cross the blue moutains.
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A road is built across the moutains.
The town of bathurst is founded -
Penal settlement begun at moreton bay (Then NSW now Queensland
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Attempted second settlement in Victoria (abandoned in 1828)
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Stuart solves the riddle of the inland rivers
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Henty Brothers settle at portland bay in Victoria.
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John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner start settlements at port phillip, Victoria
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First settlers arrive in South Australia
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Settlement at Port Phillip is named Melbourne
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Transportation of convicts to mainland Australia ends.
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Explorer Leichhardt vanishes in an attempt to cross Australia from east to west.
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Penal settlement started in WA.
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Victoria becomes a separate colony -
gold is found in NSW and Victoria. -
miners revolt at the eureka stockade ib ballarat
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Queensland becomes a seperate colony.
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Burke and Wills die on the homeward journey crossing the Australia from south to north
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First commercial sugar crops grown in Queensland.
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Trasportation to Western Astralia ends.
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Last full blood Tasmanian aborigine, truganini, dies.
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Ned kelly is hanged.
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Big gold strike at Kalgoorlie, W.a.
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Federation - Commenwealth rather than a series of different colonies
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World war 1 starts Britain's entry immediately involves
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Anzacs land at Gallipoli.
In 1918 the war ends. -
Parliament opened in Canberra
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Full effects of the great depression are felt
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Sydney harbour bridge opened.
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World war 2 starts. britain's entry immediately involves Australia
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World War 2 ends
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The Snowy Mountains Scheme begins.
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Melbourne hosts the Olympic Games.
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Australia sends soldiers to fight in the Vietnam war.
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Cyclone Tracy destroys much of Darwin.
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The Bicentennial of European settlement in Australia is celebrated.