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60,000 BCE
The settlement of aboriginal people in Australia
A population collapse following European settlement, and a smallpox epidemic spreading three years after the arrival of Europeans may have caused a massive and early depopulation. -
35,000 BCE
British settlement of Australia
This area was deemed to be unsuitable for settlement and they moved north to Port Jackson on 26 January 1788, landing at Camp Cove, known as 'cadi' to the Cadigal people. -
1 CE
The voyages of the Polynesians
Traditional Polynesian navigation was used for thousands of years to make long voyages across thousands of miles of the open Pacific Ocean. -
James Cook's arrival in Australia and New Zealand
Endeavour left New Zealand and sailed along the east coast of New Holland, or Australia, heading north. -
Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand. -
Gold discovered in Australia
The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir. -
Aboriginal Protection Act
The British colonists force Aborigines to adopt British customs -
Control of the Pacific Islands by the France, Britain, Japan and the United States
By the early 1900s, the United States, France, Great Britain, and Japan controlled most of the Pacific islands -
Australia became an independent country
In 1927, Australia become independents. -
Samoan independence
In 1962, January first, Samoan become a independence country.
