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A Naval Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros Calls Australia "Vanuatu"
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros who was a Spanish explore stumped upon Australia in 1606 while search land for the Spanish empire we wrote in his journal "The greatness of the land newly discovered, judging from what I saw, and from what the captain"
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Sea Captain of Dutch Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog was a Dutch explorer/sailor who on the 25th of October 1616 he and his crew stumbled upon a vast majority of land which he found was inhabited. There is an island named after him in South Australia off the coast of Shark Bay because that is where he made his landfall -
Peter Nuyts
Peter Nuyts who was also a Dutch explorer was apart of an expedition which had mapped out the Southern Coast of Australia in the year 1627 he also became a Dutch ambassador to Japan in the same year. -
Abel Tasman
Abel Tasman who was a Dutch seafarer was best known for his voyages of Van Diemen's Land which is now known as Tasmania Fiji and New Zealand. -
William Dampier
William Dampier who was a English Explore and who was an ex-pirate was the first Englishmen to find parts of Australia and he was the first person in the whole world to travel around the world three times. -
William de Vlamingh
William de Vlamingh was a Dutch Sea Explorer who charted the central west coast of New Holland in the late 16th century. where he landed is now known as Perth the voyages proved a waste of time. -
Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook who was a British naval explorer who in the year 1770 charted The Great Barrier Reef and New Zealand on his ship call HMB endeavour. when he landed he claimed the east coast for the Queen and he named it New South Wales -
Landing of the First Fleet
Captain Arthur Phillip led the first fleet he was a royal navy officer. He was the first governor of New South Wales he accomplished an English colony that is what we know now as the city of Sydney Australia. -
Founding of Christian Brothers
In the year 1802, a wealthy local businessman by the name of Edmund Ignatius Rice founder a Roman Catholic lay congregation this was founded in Waterford which is in Ireland. The purpose of this was to educate poor catholic boys in the local area -
First Public Mass
The first-ever Public mass on Australian soil was on 15th May 1803 at Port Jackson. Then there was another mass on the May 22nd and then it was followed by another mass which was on May 29th. All of these masses help all the newly arrived Catholics. -
Rum Rebellion
The Rum Rebellion was when officers of the New South Wales corps invaded the government house in Sydney and placed Governor William Bligh under arrest. After he was arrested the colony was placed under Military supervision. -
Crossing of the Blue Mountains
In 1813 Blaxland was ignored and refused by the governor to grant him more coastal land for grazing for his flocks. So then he decided to cross the Blue Mountains to find more land. The expedition started on 11 May 1813 and ended on 6 June 1813. -
Crossing of the Blue Mountains
In the year 1813, Gregory Blaxland wanted more coastal land for grazing but the governor at the time declined some he and two of his other mates set out on an expedition across the Blue Mountains to find more land. They were the first Europeans which made their way across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. -
Arrival Of Fr.Jeremiah O'Flynn
Fr. Jeremiah O'Flynn was a priest who assisted in to make sure the people knew about the needs of Catholics in New South Wales. He also influenced the British government in 1820 to allow the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia. -
Fr.Jeremiah O'Flynn
Fr.Jeremiah O'Flynn was a priest who assisted to let the world know the needs of Catholics in New South Wales. He also influenced the British Government to make sure they let the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia in order to help with the needs of Catholics. -
Fr. O’Flynn deported
Fr. O'Flynn was deported because he only had official authority from the churches of Rome but in Australia, he had no official authority from the governor Macquarie. He was deported for doing illegal worships it is said that in a Sydney home he has left a blessed sacrament before he was deported in 1818 -
The First Official Fathers
The first official chaplains were appointed by the British Government and they were Fr John Therry and Fr Philip Conolly. These two priests were only allowed to control Catholics. Some of the activities that very forbidden to be done by these two priests were do anything related to politics in the colony they couldn't also convert people who were non-Catholics to the Catholic belief. Two other things that they couldn't do was perform marriages between Protestants and Catholics -
Construction of first Catholic Church
The first Catholic Church was built in 1821 the first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie the Cathedral is the headquarters of the Catholic church. When Sydney's first bishop, John Bede Polding, arrived in 1835 he took over. -
Saint Mary of The Cross was Born
Saint Mary Mackillop or her full name Saint Mary Helen MacKillop was born in the year of 1842 on 15th of January she was born in the state of Victoria -
Mary Mackillop and Father Julian
In the year of 1866, Mary and Father Julian open a "stable school" and also two of Mary younger sisters started to teach at the school and also women from around the area started to teach too. -
Mary kicked out of the Church
Mary was kicked out of the Church by Bishop Sheil on the 22nd September in the year of 1871 for no obeying orders. Most of the schools that were started now had been shut down. -
St. Mary Mackillop Died
St. Mary Mackillop died in the year of 1909 on August 8th on Northern Sydney New South Wales -
Saint Mary of The Cross was canonized
She was canonized officially as Saint Mary of The Cross also at a mass which was held by Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on the date of the 17th of October 2010.
