important events that led to establishement of the british colonisation

By livvi.heaton@education.nsw.gov.au

  • enclosure acts began in britain

  • steam powered machinery was invented.industrial revoloution began

  • convicts stopped being sent overseas to america

  • house of commons decided NSW was suitable as a penal colony

  • captain arthur phillip was chosen to lead the first fleet

  • the first fleet left on 13th of may

  • arthur phillip was governor of the colony.

  • two more fleets arrived

  • first free colonists arrived

  • huge growth in population,poverty and crime

  • western australia would become a third penal colony when the falling settlement requested an injection of convict labourers

  • govenor lachlen maquarie arrived.construction of roads a buildings began

  • Australia wholly divided into six colony's