History of Australia

By Noahsanchez

  • 1770

    1770
    Captain cook discovers Australia and charters the east coast and claims it for Britain.

  • 1788

    1788
    The new outpost was put to use as a penal colony, the First Fleet of 11 ships carrying 1,500 people, half of them convicts

  • 1804

    1804
    Hobart Town is established in Van Diemens Land which is now known as Tasmania.

  • 1833

    1833
    Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.

  • 1840

    1840
    Transportation to new South Wales was abolished

  • 1851

    1851
    Gold rush begins near bathurst in new south wales

  • 1853

    1853
    The last convicts are shipped to Tasmania.

  • 1868

    1868
    The last convicts are transported to Australia

  • 1876

    1876
    The last full blooded Tasmanian aboriginal, Truganini, dies.

  • 1914-1918

    1914-1918
    Australian troops fight in World War 1.