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1750-1918
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Captain James Cook Discovers Australia
Captain James Cook discovers Australia. He arrived at botany bay in Sydney. -
1778 First Fleet
The first fleet arrives in Australia.these ships arrived from England bettween the periods of 1778 to 1850 -
1846 First Game of Baseball
First Game of Baseball, with rules was played in 1846. it was played between New York Vs New Jersey. It was played on the 19th of June in 1846. -
1851 Gold Rush
In 1851 the Australian Gold Rush started when Edward Hammond Hargraves claimed to have discovered a “grain of gold” in a waterhole near Bathurst, New South Wales. -
Australian Rules Football Invented
In 1858 cricketers Thomas Wills and his cousin, Henry Harrison, and two others W.J Hammersley and J.B Thompson, invented the game to keep themselves fit during winter. This Game is Known as AFL today -
Stolen Generation
In 1869 the Children of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander descents were taken away from their parents by state government or agencies. -
1889 Birth of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th April in !889. Adolf Hitler went on to become president of germany and killed millions of people. -
Federation
On the 1st of January 1901 the British parliament allowing the six Australian states to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia. -
Women Go the Olympics
Swimming was introduced as an event for women in 1912 at the Stockholm Olympics. Before then, women were not allowed to be Olympians. -
Assasination of Franz Ferninad
Franz Ferninad was assaisinated by Serbians and this lead to the start of WW1. He was an Austrian man and Austria declared war on Serbia which then lead to the start of World War 1 -
End of WW1
On the 11th November 1918 was the end of the first World War. it ended when Germany finally gave in. This then brang a brief period of World Peace