-
The claiming of Australia by James Cook
Cook had traveled a long way from england aboard the HMS Endeavour in order to search for new lands. He landed in Botany bay in late april 1770. -
The first settlement
Most of the first people to arrive in Australia were convicts. However, there were also free settlers from the beginning. The first fleet, made of convicts, officers of the navy and some free men and women landed in sydney cove and built the first colony. -
The first colony in Tasmania
After being circumnavigated between 1798 and 1799, Tasmania was now a place to establish new colonies for the british crown. -
The australian gold rush
After the discovery of gold in several locations of Australia, immigrants came from all over the world to search for gold. -
The separation of Queensland : Towards a modern Australia ?
The six states of Australia were made and changed during the first half of the 19th century. Queensland is the last state to be formed, as it separed itself from the New South Wales on June the 6th, 1859. It also became a "self governing" colony, which meant that all the states of Australia had this status by now. -
The final convoy of convicts
From 1788, Australia had been a penal colony. This status ceased to exist after 1868, when the final convict ship, the Hougoumont, landed in western Australia on the tenth of january, 1868. -
The national convention
In 1891 ,delegates of the six colonies of Australia met in order to discuss the formation of an independent state, outside of the rule of the british crown. -
Independent australia
On january the 1st 1901,the six colonies became the commonwealth of Australia, made up of six states : Tasmania, the New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.
