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James Cook Claims Australian East Coast
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British First Fleet Arrives in Australia
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Bass and Fliders discover Tasmania is an Island
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A Settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Dieman's Land
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Victorian Gold Rush
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The Eureka Stockade
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Edmund Barton Becomes Prime Minister of Australia
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The Foundation Stone for the City of Canberra is put in Place
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Australian Soldiers are Sent to the First World War
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First World War Ends - 60,000 Austalians Dead
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Edith Cowan Becomes the First Woman Elected to an Australian Parliament
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Sir Douglas Mawson Charts 4,000 Miles of Antarctic Coastline
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge Opens
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Second World War Invasion of Poland
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Second World War Ends
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Melbourne Holds the Olympics
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Television Australia is Launched
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First Troops Sent to the Vietnam War
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Indigenous Australian are Given the Right to Vote
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The Sydney Opera House is Opened
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Vietnam War Ends
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Darwin is Devastated by Cyclone Tracy
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27th Olympics Games held in Sydney