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Period: 2017 BCE to 2017 BCE
The voyages of the Polynesians
About 2000 B.C- 1 A.D,1 A.D- 1000: Another might come from Micronesia, and them went Australia,or far away. -
1779 BCE
The settlement of aboriginal people in Australia
About 60000 B.C-35000 B.c: The Aboriginal in Australia are might come from Indonesia. -
James Cook's arrival in Australia and New Zealand
In 1769 the expedition reached New Zealand,charting the coast.
In 1770 he was the first Europeans to reach east cost of Australia. -
British settlement of Australia
The white settlement of the country over the following decaede led to sharp drop in the Abroiginal population. -
Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Te Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand. It resulted in the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand by Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in May 1840. -
Gold discovered in Australia
The gold found from 1851 onwords created to gold rushs. -
Aboriginal Protection Act
Australia gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people to the government's Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation of residence, employment and marriage. -
Control of the Pacific Islands by the France, Britain, Japan and the United States
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China (including the 1945 Soviet–Japanese conflict). -
Australia became an independent country
Federation. Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia was established as a constitutional monarchy. -
Samoan independence
The entire island group, which includes American Samoa, was called "Navigator Islands" by European explorers before the 20th century because of the Samoans' seafaring skills
