Johns timeline of awesomeness

By zebraseven

  • captain cook

    captain cook lands in botany bay.

  • the first fleet

    the first fleet
    the first fleet arrived in australia.

  • botany bay

    joseph banks reccomends botany bay as a suitable place for a penal colony

  • squatters

    Here come the squatters! Governors have drawn lines on the map of the colonies to delineate the limits of settlement.

  • goldrush

    goldrush
    the first major gold strikes, with gold found near bathurst in nsw, then in victoria near what would become ballarat.

  • the eureka stockade

    gold miners at ballarat erect a wooden stockade to protest an ill treatment.

  • john howard

    John Howard wins a landslide election victory and historic third term.