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A fleet of 11 ships sailed from England and reached botany bay carrying 1,530 people, 736 of them were convicts
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The first conflict between the First Fleet arrivals and Aboriginal people takes place near Rushcutters Bay, Sydney. Two convicts are killed.
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A smallpox epidemic decimates the Eora Aboriginal people of Port Jackson, Botany Bay and Broken Bay.
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Pemulwuy spears Phillip’s gamekeeper, John McEntire, and Phillip orders the first punitive expedition.
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Bennelong and a boy named Yemmerrawanie are taken to England by Phillip.
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Beginning of a six-year period of resistance to white settlement by Aboriginal people in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta areas. Known as the ‘Black Wars’.
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Aboriginal people begin to be moved onto mission stations where they can be taught European beliefs and used as cheap labour. Settlers try to control growth of the Aboriginal population with a policy of absorption.
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the start of the mission stations
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Governor Arthur ordered aboriginal people out of all settled districts
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only 250 kulin people survived
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The Victorian Aborigines Protection Act excludes ‘half-castes’ from their definition of an Aboriginal person. As a result nearly half the residents of the missions and reserves have to leave their homes.
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the stop to the stolen gerneration began
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the government increased the welfare and wages benefits
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cathy Freeman won gold at the 1996 olympic games
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Kevin Rudd presented the apology to the indigenous people
