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Tasman discovers New Zealand
This event is important because he was best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East Indiana company. -
Captain Cook killed in Hawaii
This event is important to Austalia because Cook made maps of voyages to the Pacific ocean. He achieved the first recorded Euopean contact with the eastern coastline of the Hawian Islands. It is a loss because he won't be able to make maps anymore. -
First Australian penal colony established
This event is important to Austalia because, during the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Austalian penal colonies by the british government. Tey used the prisoners like slaves to clear the land. -
Tolpuddle Martyrs banished to Australia
This event is important to Austalia because after several years of reductions in their agricultural wages, a group of workers in Tolpuddle, a small village east of Dorchester, England, formed the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. -
Australians battle Germans at Pozieres
This event is important to Austalia because Divisions of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, known as ANZAC, which had previously served on the Gallipoli Peninsula during the ill-fated Allied invasion there in 1915, were given the objective of capturing Pozieres Ridge, an early goal set by the British army's command for the ambitious Somme Offensive, which began on July 1, 1916. -
Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw troops from Vietnam
This event is important to Austalia because the Austalians had 6,000 men in south Vietnam and the New Zealanders numbered 264. -
Port Arthur Massacre in Australia
This event is important to Austalia because on this day in 1996, 28-year-old Martin Bryant begins a killing spree that ends in the deaths of 35 men, women and children in the quiet town of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia.
