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Liam.C's Australian Colonisation Timeline

  • Abel Tasman was the first person to discover a part of Australia

    Abel Tasman was the first person to discover a part of Australia
    Abel Tasman found van deimans land in 1642, and called it Tasmania (what it is called today)
  • Machines in the making

    Machines in the making
    During this time, scientists were trying to make machines to make life easy but they didn't know that it will make most life's hard in the future....
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    Industrial revolution

    When the industrial revolution was happening, lots of people were stealing things to survive because all of the machines were taking over.
  • Captain James cook looked for new land

    Captain James cook looked for new land
    Once again after the loss against America, captain James cook had a mission to find land
  • New land found and James cook called it new holland

    New land found and James cook called it new holland
    Captain James cook has discovered unknown land and he called it new holland which means no one owns it
  • First fleet comes to Australia!

    First fleet comes to Australia!
    After captain James cook found new holland, he reported it to Britain and they heard so they had eleven ships come with the first fleet including captain authur Phillip. The first state colonised was New South Wales.
  • Queensland and 3 other states are now colonised

    Queensland and 3 other states are now colonised
    By the end of 1830, the are 4 new states such as:
    Queensland
    Western Australia
    Tasmania
    And south Australia
  • Gold rush

    Gold rush
    The gold rush is what made Australia multi cultral. It made Australia multi cultral because loads of people from other countries wanted to get gold and become rich.
  • American civil war

    American civil war
    After the lost to the civil war Britain didn't have much room to put their convicts