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Captain Cook discovered Australia and immediately claimed it for Britain so that the French could not claim it for themselves
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Captain Cook brought the first fleet to Australia, which mostly consisted of convicts
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The colony of Western Australia was established in 1836 by Captain James Stirling
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South Australia was established with Adelaide as its capital
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People found gold around New South Wales and neighbouring state Victoria
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Miners in the town of Ballarat were unhappy with the way the government administrated goldfields so they set up a stockade near the Eureka Diggings
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The first-ever match of test cricket between Australia and England was played in Melbourne
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Police arrested Australian icon Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang Dan Kelly, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart were killed in the siege. Although they were killed they wore thick steel armour that protected them from shots from a rifle and this is where they used this armour to make the police think they were hittable.
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Austalia became its own country, it was united and no longer considered a British colony
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NSW and Victoria could not decide where the capital should be held, so the ACT was made between them as the capital city
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The state of Canberra was created to be the capital city of Australia in 1911
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Australia joined WW1 after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
