Alexander's Timeline

  • Grouping

    In Portsmouth, England all the covicts, soldiers and supplies were grouping up and getting ready to go on board ships
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    First Fleet Arrival and Colonising

  • The Launch

    The Launch
    The First Fleet voyage started and the ships were travelling to the first stop.
  • Rio Arrival

    Rio Arrival
    This is the first stop of The First Fleet's voyage to Australia, Rio de Janeiro
  • The Cape o Good Hope

    This is the next stop of The First Fleet voyage. The Cape of Good Hope is in Africa
  • The Last Stop

    The Last Stop
    The last stop of The First Fleet voyage was in Tasmania which is at the bottom of Australia. Some bad storms were occuring there.
  • landing

    landing
    The Firts Fleet arrived on Botanty Bay on the 24th June 1788 and set out the supplies
  • Settling

    Settling
    This time is when the male convicts started unpacking all of the supplies and animals, and started putting up tents getting ready to start builing the jails.
  • Popular Colonising

    Popular Colonising
    Colonies were becoming big because lots of the convicts on Australia were given bricks and other building matierials, to build jails.
    This was also a time for when lots of ships were arriving so lots of more convicts were arriving on Australia.
  • More Chores!

    More supplies were coming nd lots of more jobs were starting like, sugar cane cutting and ploughing crops.
  • Bushrangers

    This is when the bushrangers start forming in Australia. Ned Kelly, the famous bushranger, formed the Kelly Gnag in 1880.