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William Dampier becomes the first Englishman to explore parts of the Austrailian coastline
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Smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases, broke out in the Sydney are in 1789
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Matthew Flinders circumnavigates the continent that he names "australia"
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Rum hospital, the first public hospital in Australia opens
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Australia's first novelist, Henry Savery published Quintus Servinton
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New Zealand seperates from New South Wales to become an independent colony
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89 die in Australia's deadliest flood
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Australia's first steam railway line opens in Melbourne
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The South Australian Parliament passed the Constitutional Amendment Act