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1770
capitain cook claims Australia for the British -
1788
First colony in Sydney Cove -
1790
First fee settlers arrive for a new life in Australia -
1803
New colony set up for convicts on Tasmania. Free settlers soon follow -
1840
By now about half the people living in Australia were born there -
1855
Four of the five province of Austramia garanted self government . they manage most of their own affairs but are still part of the British empire