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James cook sails around Australia
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Australia becomes a penal colony
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Australia becomes a penal colony
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the rum rebellion
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Australia got its name after it being New Holland
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The whole of Australia was claimed as British territory when Major Edmund Lockyer
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Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captain James Stirling.
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Captain Charles Fremantle took possession of the western side of New Holland for the British crown.
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Port Arthur opens a penal colony for second time in Tasmania
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The gold rush starts
