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Arrival of first fleet
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. -
Australia's first Bank Opened
The first bank established in Australia in 1817, it was called The Bank of New South Wales (which was then renamed as Westpac). Edward Smith Hall was the first cashier and secretary. This was very important to Australia because that means Australia is getting wealthier. -
Eureka Rebellion
The Eureka Rebellion occurred in 1854.The Battle of the Eureka Stockade, by which the rebellion is popularly known, was fought between miners and the Colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict.The rebellion lasted for less than half an hour and resulted in the deaths of at least 27 people, the majority of whom were rebels. -
Ned Kelly - Bushranger
Ned Kelly is the most famous of all Australian bushrangers. he was born in the Glenrowan area in 1855 and at age 15 had his first altercation with the police. Although not convicted, he was first charged with helping bushranger Harry Power, during robberies.
He was sentenced to 6 months hard labor shortly after for assault and indecent behavior and began this before his 16th. birthday. The police tried many times to gain evidence on Kelly to get him behind bars until, on the 20th of June,1880 -
Ned Kelly dies
11th of November,1880, notorious bushranger and infamous Australian character Edward 'Ned' Kelly was hanged for murder at the Melbourne Goal.
Kelly and his gang were infamous through Australia in the 1870s for highway robbery, bank swindles and confrontations with local police. After going on the run in 1878, the gang also constructed unusual bullet-proof, plate-metal armour and helmets from farm tools, which gave them their trademark look. -
Outbreak of World War I
Australia commits hundreds of thousands of troops to the British war effort. Their participation - alongside New Zealanders - in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915 leads to heavy casualties. The Gallipoli landings help cement a sense of identity in the young nation.The event that was widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I occurred on
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Port Arthur massacre
The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded. It occurred mainly at the historic Port Arthur former prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. -
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Sydney Olympics
The Sydney Olympic Games were held from 15 September to 1 October 2000. Sydney was awarded the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games in 1993. It was the second time that an Australian city had hosted the Olympic Games, the first being in Melbourne in 1956. The first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in Athens in 1896 following the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. The Olympics began in Greece about 3,500 years ago but were discontinued in 393 AD. -
Black Saturday
The Black Saturday Bushfires is the name given to the bushfires which started on the 7th of February 2009 in Victoria, Australia.
The weather conditions on the day were some of the worst bushfire weather conditions ever recorded.
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Lindt chocolate cafe siege
The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis, commonly known as the Sydney siege occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the timebut Monis' motives have subsequently been debated.
Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire during the raid.
