A SNAPSHOT of Australia’s History (1770 – 1918)

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  • Lieutenant James Cook claims the East coast for Australia

  • First Settlement which is today Sydney

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    of exploration, frontier war, and new settlements being built.

  • Raising of the brittish falg at sydney cove

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    Aboriginal Population dropped from 315000 to 93000

  • George Bass explored the south Coast of Australia

  • The 1800s was a period of railway bulding

  • Derwent river settelment and pot phillip settelment

  • Port Phillip settelements moved to the Derwent river settelment

  • Bathurst was establlished as a city

  • Morton bay convict colony was established

  • Port Essington and Melville Island settelment

  • Captian James Stirling Spent 2 weekes looking at swan river

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    Port Aurthure was a convict settelment

  • First Australia Act was passed by the brittish parliament

  • Mortyon bay convict colony was opend up to free setterlers after it shut down

  • Large group of Germans arived

  • 28 men and women were murdered by 12 stockman.

  • 18 Afgans were bought out

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    was the Great Australian Gold Rush, the colonies experienced huge growth and immigration

  • Black Thursday Bushfires

  • The Eureka Rebellion was an armed conflict which is attributed to as the birth of democracy in Australia

  • Two houses of parliament wer discoverd

  • Van Diemens land was changed to Tasmania

  • Reservoir built at the Yan Yean

  • queensland was sepparated from NSW

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    the 'heyday' of the Bushrangers. It is believed that at their peak over 2000 bushrangers roamed the continent.

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    Working conditions were improved for the workers

  • Australias first mosque was built

  • Brisbanes first dam was built

  • 100 camels and 31 cameleers were bought out

  • All Australian Capitals were linked by telegraph

  • DIfferent groups such as the "Australian Natives association" were set up

  • Telegraph line was complete from adelaide to darwin

  • The first recorded japenese diver arrived in torres strait

  • 1880's Melbourn was one of the ichest cities in the worl

  • In late 1880's department stores were developed

  • sewage farms were first introduced

  • Defence was raised

  • A sence of nationalism was established and posed in the bulletin

  • Federation council was set up

  • Even more camles and cameleers were bought in (300 camels and 36 cameleers)

  • cabel tram system began in melbourne

  • Second attempt to set up the federation council

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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.

  • Serious economic depression

  • Queenslanders formed the first Labor government in the world

  • Women were granted suffrage "The right to vote"

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    Massive drout

  • The more wealthy football clubs formed the VFL

  • First house was connected to the sewerage system

  • Japenese outnumber population

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    Australia fights in the Boer War

  • Act put the removal of part-aboriginal children in the hands of the miniter, with no rights to appeal to court

  • 75% of population had been born in Australia

  • In the 1900s there was an extention of education

  • Queen victoria Signed the COmmonwealth of Australia constitution Act

    The new nation offically began on 1st of January 1901
  • Federation of Australia is the beginning of the Australian nation.

  • Conditions for workers started to improve and the wrost ecconomic depression was over

  • The councilation and Arbitration Court was established

    Aim was to settel dissagrements between employers and trade unions.
  • The child protection act was put into place to make it much esier to remove aboriginal children from their parents

  • Workers Compensation Act was put into place

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    Australia fights in WW1 - Major battles include Gallipoli, Beersheba

  • ABoriginies got the right to vote

  • Canberra was chosen as capital and Parliament house was opened

  • the labor party won the election

  • Bombing of Darwin