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Early Explorers
Early explorers traveled to find and colonize new countries, they didn't only travel to Australia but they also travelled around the whole world! It took years for them to get to places as they could only travel on a boat -
Industrial Revolution
The industrial Revolution happened when Machines ruled, many people got fired because machines got the work done easily, everyone was poor and started stealing so they could live -
Finding Civilisation
This event took place when one of the British (Captain James Cook) discovered east coat of Australia, James Cook decided to name it New South Wales, it was where the convicts finally settled in and British started to create a new colony -
The first Colony
When Captain Author Phillip arrived at Sydney cove in 1788 he had instructions to establish the the first British colony in Australia. Britain claimed the whole of Australia after establishing the colony of Western Australia in 1829 -
Dividing the land
In 1825 the border of New South Wales had been moved west with Western Australia which covered the third remaining land there was. -
Gold Rush
The discovery of gold at Bathurst added a further source of wealth to New South Wales. That started the Gold Rush -
Competing Interests
While transport and communication developments in the 1800s increasingly linked the colonies, intense rivalry often chategerised relations between them. This was especially the case for the two most popular colonies, New South Wales and Victoria -
American Civil War
Crime happened more and the colony's in America did not accept anymore convicts, crime happened because soldiers were away and people were not afraid of being caught -
One Continent, Six countries
By 1863, the colonial borders had been finalized. The continent (Australia) was home to six different colonies, Western Australia, South australia, Queensland, New South Wales and they replaced Van Diemends land for Tasmania -
Britain Colonized all Australia
When British arrived to Australia captain author Phillip claimed the whole of Australia as he noticed it hasn't been claimed by anyone. Though he dint not know that it belonged to the aboriginals
