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first fleet
The English sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships. The first eleven of these ships are known as the First Fleet and contained the convicts and marines that are now acknowledged as the founders of Australia in Port Jackson (but it happened in Botney Bay), also the the Great Britain was on the boat because they were convicts and they had to live there time at Australia. -
gold rush
The discovery of payable gold near Bathurst by Edward Hargraves. In that year New South Wales had about 200,000 people, a third of them within a day's ride of Sydney. The rest scattered along the coast and through the pastoral districts. From the Port Phillip District in the south to Moreton Bay in the north. -
NSW and Victoria given more powers
Acts of the British Parliment gave the colonies of NSW and Victoria full self Goverment,called Responsible Goverment. This ment that the two colonies but not the British Goverment, were now responsible for their own afair. -
the seprate of the colony
The new colony of Nsw grew very quickly. Soon European settlers spread out of across Australia and took up land in Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia,Victoria and Queensland. By 1860, all the settlements, except Western Australia were seperated colonies, each with its own laws . -
New South Wales Flags and Emblems
The Colonial Defence Act of 1865 it became lawful for any Colony, subject to certain conditions, to provide and maintain its own vessels of war, and these were authorised to wear the Blue Ensign with the seal or badge of the Colony. -
Bushrangers outlawed in NSW
To be made an outlaw placed a person outside the law. This ment they could be captured dead or alive, by any citerzen without a warrent for their arrest. A month later, on 4th of May 1865, notorious bushranger in the BEN hall was haunted down and short by the police at his hideout at billabong Creek. His last words were "i am wounded, shoot me dead". He was short 15 times. Then, eight days later, Gilbert, a member of hall's gang, was also shot dead near Binalong, of NSW. -
why no federation
During the 1870s and most people in Australia did not think about the idea of federation at all. People who lived in contry areas struggling to make a living on a farm or they had to work for factorys or the offices in the cities. -
Maybanke Anderson
Maybanke Anderson came to Sydney as a child in January.Maybanke Anderson started a school in Sydney 1885. At the same time. She became intrested in women rights, and helped form the womanhood suffreage league of NSW, also she became a strong supporter of federation. -
Sir Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkees died before feration, and he was the premier of NSW and first leader of the federation movement. He died in 1896 in NSW. Sir Henry Parkes would of been 86 years old in 1901 when federation was achived. -
federation became
A ceromnrey in Centennial, park Sydney, on the 1st of January 1901. Edmund Barton had chosen eight ministers to help him govern until election could be held in March.They had to sworn in by the Governour-enral in a specially built white domed pavilion, which still stands like today.
