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First fleet
Male female children total Prisoners and their kids 548 188 17 753
Other people 219 34 24 277
Total of people 767 222 41 1030
The first fleet Sailed from Portsmouth in England and looking for land there were 11 ships in the first fleet, they landed at botany bay in Australia on the 18th of January 1788.They arrived at Botany Bay after sailing south of Van Diemen's Land, then north to New South Wales. It was decided that Botany Bay was not a suitable site f -
federation
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six single British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. They kept the systems of government that they had developed as single colonies but also would have a central government that was responsible for matters about the whole nation. When the Parts of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies together became states of the State o -
gold rush
The first gold rush in Australia began in 1851 when prospector Edward Hargraves claimed the discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, new south wales at a site he called ophir Eight months later, gold was found in Ballarat and Bendigo in Victoria causing large arrivals of prospectors. Australia's total population more than tripled from [430,000] in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.
In 1885, following a call by the Western Australian government for a reward for the first find of payable gold, a disco -
Ned kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be just a cold-blooded murderer, while others consider him to be a general hero and sign of Irish Australian fight against the English people.
Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he fought with the Victoria police. Following an event at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the -
South Australia Colonization
Colonization is settlement by a large group of people from other countries who seek to take control of a country in order to start a new society, for these people to call their home.
The South Australian is the only free settlement Colony, which means there are no convicts here.
The South Australian Colonization Act was created in 1834. An Act is a written Law to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Control
