the British colonization

By chatherine.rose@education.nsw.gov.au

  • 1604

    enclosure acts began in Britain

  • 1760

    steam powered machinery was invented

  • 1775

    convicts stopped being sent to America

  • 1785

    House of command decided NSW was suitable as a penalty colony

  • 1786

    Captain Arthur Philip was chosen to lead the first fleet

  • 1787

    The first fleet left on 13th of May

  • 1790

    Two more fleets arrived

  • 1793

    First fleets colonies arrived

  • 1800

    huge growth in population poverty and crime

  • 1810

    governor Lachlan Macquarie arrived. Contraction of roads and buildings began