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Colonization
Captain James Cook charts the east coast in his ship. Cook claims Australia as British possession and names eastern Australia "New South Wales". -
Convict Colony
British Navy captain Arthur Phillip founds a penal settlement in Sydney. He arrives with 11 other ships carrying around 800 convicts. -
Gold Rush
Gold was found in several locations around Australia. People flooded to Australia strike it rich, tripling the population in just 10 years passing the million mark. -
Aborigines
People flood into Australia to find gold, but destroying the natives land in the process. Pushing them out of there land and spreading devastating disease, the native population rapidly falls. -
Independence
Australia becomes its own country, while still symbolically being represented by the British queen.
