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Captain James Cook embarks on the voyage of discovery in the Resolution
The Resolution sailed from the Nore and from Plymouthon . The Resolution anchored in Table Bay. Cook kept on having voyages and discovereing many places. -
Captain Cok is murdered by the Indigenous
He was murdered by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific Island group. As they entered Hawaii, they were fascinated by the European ships and their use of iron. After on of the lesser Hawaiian chiefs was shot, a mob of hawaiians descended on his party. During this battle, Cook was shot. -
British ships called th "First Fleet."
The fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports, carrying more than 1,000 convicts, marines and seamen, and a vast amount of stores. From England, the Fleet sailed southwest to Rio de Janeiro, then east to Cape Town and via the Great Southern Ocean to Botany Bay, arriving in mid-January 1788, taking 250 to 252 days from departure to final arrival. -
Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border.
Settlement of seven vessels and 636 people was temporarily made at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, until the official site of the colony was selected where Adelaide is currently located. The first immigrants arrived at Holdfast Bay (near the present day Glenelg) in November 1836, and the colony was proclaimed on 28 December 1836, now known as Proclamation Day. South Australia is the only Australian state to be settled entirely by free settlers. -
Queensland separated from New South Wales
The state was named in honour of Queen Victoria,[7] who on 6 June 1859 signed Letters Patent separating the colony from New South Wales. The date 6 June is now celebrated statewide as Queensland Day. -
The bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged.
Kelly had become a legendary figure in Australia.words are famously reported to have been, "such is life". -
Sir Henry Parkes delivered the Tenterfield Oration.
The Tenterfield Oration was the united defence of the Australian continent.the Tenterfield Oration has similar significance to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in the American colonies. -
Banjo Paterson published "The Man from Snowy River"
"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 26 April 1890, and was published by Angus & Robertson in October 1895, with other poems by Paterson, in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses. -
Australian Oscar award
Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! Australians have been walking down the red carpets in Hollywood for a long time! Their Oscar Statuette is on display at National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. -
Federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aborigines
The Commonwealth Referendum passes. This ends constitutional discrimination and all Aboriginal people are now counted in the national census. It also means that the Federal Government can now legislate for Aboriginal people in the states and share the responsibility for Aboriginal Affairs with state governments.
