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65,000 BCE
65,000 BP – Earliest archaeological evidence of First Nations peoples in Australia
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50,000 BCE
50,000-25,000 BP – Evidence of megafauna living in Australia.
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40,000 BCE
40,000 BP – Mungo Man and Mungo Lady lived in Willandra Lakes region.
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20,000 BCE
20, 000 BP – Peak Ice Age and First Nations peoples surviving in places like Kutikina Caves in Tasmania
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11,000 BCE
11,000 BP – Large areas of land become inundated with the melting of ice sheets - Papua New Guinea and Tasmania are separated from Australia.
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8000 BCE
8000 BCE – Settled climate begins to arise in Australia that is like the present day.
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7500 BCE
7500 BCE – Sea levels rise by 100 metres inundating large plains in the Northern Territory. This has large impact on the preservation of oral histories for First Nations peoples
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7000 BCE
7000 BCE – Evidence of stone houses in Western Australia
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3000 BCE
3000 BCE – Evidence of the arrival of the dingo and the extinction of the Tasmania Tiger on the Australian mainland.
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1500 BCE
1500 CE – Indonesian peoples (Makassan) trade with First Nations people. Many more people begin to explore Australia (Dutch Explorer’s from Dutch East India Company
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1770 CE – James Cook arrives off the coast of Australia. Claims East Coast for the British Empire.
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1788 CE – Invasion and colonisation of Australia by British Empire