Jasmins Australian Colonisation Timeline

  • Willem Janszoon

    Willem Janszoon
    First European discovery of Australia
  • Luís Vaz De Torres

    He recorded that Australia was a separate continent from New Guinea
  • Dirk Hartog

    He landed in Australia and left the an artefact to record his visit
  • Frederick de Houtman

    Sailed along the western coasts of Australia
  • Abel Tasman

    Sailed to Tasmania , New Zealand and Fiji Islands
  • Willem De Vlamingh

    He sailed along western coasts of Australia
  • William Dampier

    He explored all over Australia
  • Captain cook set of to Australia

    He guided 11 ships filled with convicts , live stock , farm tools , scientists , Sir Joseph Banks , rich people , soldiers , marine officers and Author Phillip
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    The Industrial revolution

    The industrial revolution was when machines took over the jobs so all the people were becoming poor so they moved to the city to get a job so then it became crowded .
  • Captain cook came to Australia

    Captain cook started the first British colony in Australia
  • Another British settlement

    There was the first British settlement in Queensland
  • Tasmania

    Tasmania was finally separated from Australia to be another British colony
  • The borders

    The border of NSW was moved west leaving Western Australia only covering a 3rd of Australia
  • Australia

    After the British who claimed Australia after starting a colony in Western Australia
  • John Batman

    In 1835 the settlement of Melbourne had been founded by John Batman
  • Established

    In 1836 the colony of south Australia was established
  • Centre of a colony

    In 1836 Adelaide had become the centre of the new colony
  • GOLD RUSH

    In 1851 the first descovery of Gold at Bathurst added a bigger amount of wealth to NSW it also brought lots of Families to Australia to try their luck to get rich
  • Breaking colonies apart !

    In 1851 the southern part of NSW broke away to become the seperate colony of Victoria
  • Port Adelaide

    Port Adelaide was the capital of the colony of south Australia
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    Civil war

    Because of the civil war the British could no longer send their prisoners to America so all the prisons became crowded but their was no room to build new ones .
  • Australia Borders

    In 1863 the borders of Australia were moved . The entire of Australia had 6 colonies each with its own land .
  • Australia

    In the end , compromises allowed the new nation to be born in 1901