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The people in Britain kept stealing because they were in poverty which made the prisons overcrowd.
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The machines took away many jobs because they could do more in less time than people meaning they weren't as many jobs.
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People would get sick easily because the people who had houses dumped there waste out the window meaning the people on the streets would get sick.
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The factories and machines were pumping out dirty air which leaded to pollution.
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England used to send convicts to America but America had signed the Declaration of Independence, which means they couldn't send prisoners to America anymore.
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Australia was another place England could own.
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Captain James Cook first discovered Australia. He claimed the whole of Eastern Australia as a British possession and named it New South Wales.
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The First Fleet leaves Portsmouth, England, for NSW.
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Captain James Cook first landed in Port Jackson along with the First Fleet. British colonisation of Australia begins. Aboriginal people resist the takeover of their land. Captain Arthur Phillip finds a penal settlement at Sydney. With the Aboriginal population thought to be around several thousand.
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The First Fleet moves to Sydney Cove and raises the British flag.
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Settlement of Norfolk Island. The First Settlement. On March 6, 1788, the British colours were raised over Norfolk Island. Six weeks earlier, Britain's First Fleet had arrived at Botany Bay (soon to become Sydney) to establish the penal colony of New South Wales.
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Arabanoo was kidnapped by the British settlers to be taught how to live the British way of life.
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Arabanoo died of smallpox while living with the British Settlers.
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The Lady Juliana of the Second Fleet sails from Plymouth, England
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Bennelong and Colbee were kidnapped by the British, but Colbee soon escaped.
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The Guardian hits an iceburg.
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The Neptune, Surprize and Scarborough leave England.
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Bennelong slipped away from the British settlement at night to rejoin his people.
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The Neptune, Surprize and Scarborough arrive at Sydney Cove.
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The Lady Juliana arrives at Sydney Cove.
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Governor Phillip was speared on Manly beach by a Wanghal Warrior during a meeting with Bennelong and his people.
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Using fire, Bennelong signalled the British settlement which led to a meeting of reconciliation with Governor Phillip.
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Governor Phillip built a house for Bennelong at Jubgalee, now Bennelong Point.
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Bennelong's favourite wife, Barangaroo, gave birth to their daughter, Dilboong. Barangaroo died a few days later. Dilboong was found a British wet nurse but she died soon after.
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The Thrid Fleet arrives.
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Bennelong and Imeerawanyee accompanied Governor Phillip on his return voyage to England.
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Imeerawanyee died of pneumonia.
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Bennelong arrived back in Sydney on board the Reliance with the colonies new Governor, John Hunter.
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The ticket-of-leave system is established.
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The first Britons to discover and enter Port Phillip, were the crew of the Lady Nelson, commanded by John Murray, which entered the bay on 15 February 1802. Murray called the bay Port King after the Governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King.
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Van Diemen's Land is settled with convicts and some free men. Port Phillip is also settled with convicts.
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Port Phillip is abandoned as a penal settlement and convicts from there are moved to Van Diemen's Land.
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Bennelong was killed in a tribal fight and buried at Kissing Point, now in the suburb of Ryde.
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8000 free settlers arrive; explorers and squatters push West, South and North onto pasture and grazing lands.
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New South Wales Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane sends explorer John Oxley to find potential new penal sites.
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Van Diemen's Land becomes a separate colony.
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Convict settlements are set up at Moreton bay, and then Brisbane, in QLD.
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The beginning of the Black Wars in Tasmania. The Tasmanian Aboriginals are later taken to Flinders Island.
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Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captain James Stirling.
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A colony of free settlers is established in Western Australia.
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30,000 free settlers, most assisted by the British government, arrive in NSW; wool overtakes whale oil as the colonies main export earner.
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Perth was found and named by Captain James Stirling. in honour of the birthplace and parliamentary seat in the British House of Commons of Sir George Murray, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
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A jail at Port Arthur is established.
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In 1832 the colony was renamed the Colony of Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling, belatedly received his commission. However, the name "Swan River Colony" remained in informal use for many years afterwards.
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South Australia is settled by free people. No convicts were ever sent there.
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The British Parliament says that Aboriginal people have a "plain right and sacred right" to their land. It recommends that Protectors of Aboriginals be appointed in Australia.
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Adelaide was found. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia.
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80,000 free settlers arrive in NSW; the settlement is expanding rapidly as sheep and cattle spread across inland plains.
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The British stopped transporting convicts to NSW. They now send double the amount of convicts to Van Diemen's Land.
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Caroline Chisholm sets up Female Immigrants' Home.
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The Moreton Bay district is officially opened to free settlement.
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Governor Gipps declares Brisbane is no longer a convict settlement.
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Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
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Gold is found at several locations leading to gold rushes throughout the decade. The population increases three-fold in 10 years to pass the million mark. An influx of Chinese leads to restrictions on their entry. Aborigines are treated very badly and their numbers collapse.
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Transportation of convicts to Western Australia begins.
