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Lieutenant James Cook claims the East coast for Australia
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Colonial Expansion, frontier war and new settlements
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Period of exploration, frontier war, and new
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First Settlement which is today Sydney
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1798-1799
Explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders journeyed around Tasmania, proving it was a seperate island to the rest of Australia. -
First two settlements established in Tasmania
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David Jones stalls were open in Sydney
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Approximatey 28 men, women and children were murdered by 12 stockmen. This was the only case where white men were charged with murder. They were found guilty and seven of them were hanged.
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Several thousand Chinese migrants came to Australia prior to the Gold Rush
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1850 - 1860 Gold Rush
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Victoria broke away fromNew South Wales and became a seperate colony.
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The Eureka Rebellion was an armed conflict which is attributed to as the birth of democracy in Australia.
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Underground sewerage system in Sydney was established.
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1860 - 1870 is considerewd the 'Heyday' for bushrangers
Over 2000 bushrangers across the nation -
62000 young men from South Pacific Islands were tricked or wrongly bribed into coming to Australia to work as labourers and fewer than 4000 of these were women.
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The Japenese in Australia mainly were mainly involved in the Australian pearl industry. At first, Aboriginals and Islander people were used for diving for pearls, and the first Japenese recorded to dive was in Torres Strait in 1876, and by 1898 they outnumbered European population.
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Queensland is in civil war between the armed unions against government forces. Large skirmishes, attacks on wool sheds, and naval battles take place across the colony.
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Australia fights in the Boer War.
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In Victoria, the 1900 act for the removal of part-Aboriginal children in the hands of the Minister, with no right of appeal to courts. They were effectively imprisoned until they reached working age, they were usually treated badly.
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Federation of Australia is the beginning of the Australian nation.
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The 'Child Protection Act' was introduced in New South Wales to make it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their parents.
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1914 - 1918
Australia fights in WW1 - Major battles include Gallipoli, Beersheba