Austarlia

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  • European Exploration: Dutch

    European Exploration: Dutch

    First Europeans to sail to Australia were the Dutch (Netherlands) in 1606, but they didn’t settle there
  • European Exploration: British

    European Exploration: British

    1770: Captain James Cook sailed around Australia
  • First Fleet

    First Fleet

    1787 – British ships called the “First Fleet” left England with convicts to establish a prison colony
  • Prisoners sailed

    Prisoners sailed

    1788—British prisoners settled in Australia
  • New south Wales

    New south Wales

    1788 to 1832: New South Wales was officially a penal (prison) colony consisting mainly of convicts, marines (guards), and the marines’ families
  • Port Arthur

    Port Arthur

    From 1833, until the 1850s, it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders having re-offended after their arrival in Australia
  • Common Wealth of Australia

    Common Wealth of Australia

    1861: government officials created boundaries for the colonies that are still in place today
  • British Transported

    British Transported

    British transported prisoners to Australia until 1868
  • Common Wealth

    Common Wealth

    January 1, 1901: the Commonwealth of Australia was established.
    Melbourne served as the national capital until Canberra was completed in 1927

  • Aborigines

    1967: federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aborigines