- 
  
  Indigenous people -also named aboriginials- inhabited Australia 45,000 years agao
- 
  
  
- 
  
  Some researchers believe that explorers from China and Portugal travelled into the Australian waters. Prior to 1600's but there is no official evidience.
- 
  
  Willem Janzoon landed his ship named 'Duyfken"on the west coast of Australia.
- 
  
  Dutch captain Dirk Hartog arrives with his ship called 'Eendracht which means unity. When he leave an evidence which was a plate which was a later named the Hartog plate.
- 
  
  
- 
  
  Dampier from England began to travel down to Australia, and he explored th west coast in 1688 [
- 
  
  Caintain Cook sailed his ship the "Endeavour" to the southern coast. He named the land "British Crown"believing that he was the first one to travel there.
- 
  
  Arthur Philip seed the Frist Fleet to Australis. They landed in a place which is now called Sydney.
- 
  
  Arthur seed the Second Fleet to Australia, but there was a serious food problem at that time.
- 
  
  Georde Bass and Matthew Flinders, sailed from Sydney to circumnavigated Tasmania