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James Cook was born in Yorkshire
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Secret instructions sent to James Cook to find another land for England.
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James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia and named it NSW
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James Cook was murdered in Hawaii
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First Fleet landed at Botany Bay
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Ships of the 3rd Fleet arrive in Botany Bay
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Mathew Flinders completes 1st circumnavigation of continent
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Australia's first postal service started
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Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth cross Blue Mountains for first time
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Murray river discovered by Hume and Hovell
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South Australia proclaimed a colony
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Melburne officially founded and named
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Queen Victoria became queen.
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St. Peter's was the first church ever built in Australia.
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The first telegraph was sent in Australia
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Gold was first officially discovered in Australia near Bathurst
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First horse drawn railway in Australia became operational
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First cricket game played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
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The Age newspaper was first published in Melbourne
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Eureka Stockade in Ballarat
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Van Diemen's Land named changed to Tasmania
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First Parliament for New South Wales was opened by Sir William Denison
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Alfred Deakin born - became an Australian Prime Minister
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St. Kilda railway station was opened
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The first AFL game was played
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Melbourne Football club is founded
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Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits, 5 hares in Australia and they multiplied!
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Burke and Wills expedition sets off from Melbourne
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Edith Cowan first Australian woman elected to parliament
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First Melbourne Cup won by Archer
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Archer wins second Melbourne Cup
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Banjo Patterson was born
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Mary McKillop found Sisters of St. Joseph in Penola SA
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Last convict to Australia (Western Australia)
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First Australian cricket team toured overseas
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Welcome Stranger gold nugget found
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Famous Australian author May Gibbs was born
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Telegraph line from Adelaide to Perth was completed
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Earl Page was born - later became an Australian Prime Minister
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School was made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in NSW
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Ned Kelly was captured at Glenrowan
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Ned Kelly bushranger hung in Melbourne Jail
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The Man From Snowy River by Banjo Patterson first published.
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Australia achieved Federation
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Australia's first federal Election. Edmund Barton successful
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Alfred Deakin becomes Australia's second Prime Minister
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Chris Watson becoimes Australia's third Prime Minister
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George Reid becomes Australia's fourth Prime Minister
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Alfed Deakin becomes Prime minister for the second time after George reid loses majority.
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Andrew Fisher becomes Australia's fifth Prime Minister
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Andrew Fisher becomes Australia's fifth Prime minister
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Alfred Deakin regains Prime minister for his third term
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Andrew Fisher gains power over Australia in his second term
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Joseph Cook becomes Australia's sixth Prime Minister
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Andrew Fisher becomes regains power in his third term at Parliament
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Pre-dawn landing of ANZACS at Gallipoli
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William Morris Hughes becomes Austalia's 7th Prime Minister
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Australia had our first ANZAC day.
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WW1 ended
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First QANTAS flight
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce becomes Australia' eighth prime mnister
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The only police strike ever to happen inAustralia began
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Australia's Parliament moved to Canberra
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First Royal Flying Doctor official flight made
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Phar Lap won his first race- Maiden Juvenile Handicap.
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James Scullin becomes Australia's ninth Prime Minister
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Sir Isaac Isaac's becomes Australia's first Australian born Governor General
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Joseph Lyons becomes Australia's tenth Prime Minister
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First cars drive on Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Pharlap dies of food poisoning
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Last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo
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Australia's 150th Birthday
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Black Friday fires in Victoria
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Earle Page becomes Australia's 11th Prime Minister
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Robert Menzies becomes Australia's 12th Prime Minister
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Robert Menzies became Pime Minister of Australia
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World War 2 started
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Australia declared war on Germany
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Arthur Fadden became Prime Minister of Australia
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Arthur Fadden becomes Australia's 13th Prime Minister
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John Curtin became Prime Minister of Australia
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John Curtin becomes Australia's14th Prime Minister
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Darwin was bombed
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First bombing of Darwin by the Japanese
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Francis Forde became Prime Minister of Australia
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Ben Chifley became Prime Minister of Australia
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World War 2 ended
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First Sydney to Hobart yacht race
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Vietnam War began
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Hills Hoist clothes line patented in Australia
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Television first came to Australia
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16th Olympics opens in Melbourne
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16th Olympics closes
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Heat waves kill 11 in Central Australia and 13 in Sydney
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Melbourne bushfires rage killing 8 and destroying hundreds of homes
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Beatles toured Australia
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Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam
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Australia changed to decimal currency
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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears swimming in heavy surf. Body never found
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Sydney Opera House opened
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Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin
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Dismissal of Whitlam government
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Ash Wednesday Bush Fires of Victoria
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Australia wins America's Cup
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Advance Australia Fair became our new National Anthem
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First mobile phone call was made in Australia
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Australia celebrated it's bicentennary
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Newcastle Earthquake
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Ayres Rock renamed Uluru
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John Howard became Australia's 25th Prime Minister
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the date of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney was September 15th
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The Olympic Games were held in Sydney
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Bali Bombings
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Australian cricketer Don Bradman died
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Steve Irwin environmental pioneer died
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Kevin Rudd becomes Australia's 26th Prime Minister
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National Apology to the Stolen Generations
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Victorian bushfires killed 173 people
