Australia In The 19th Century

By John.semaan

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet
    The first fleet arrived at Sydney Cove with 11 ships,holding 778 convicts.The first fleet was led by Arthur Phillip.

  • Second Fleet

    Second Fleet
    The second fleet went after the first fleet but the second fleet came in 1790.5-6 ships arrived at sydney cove because of a food crisis.

  • Third Fleet

    Third Fleet
    The first ship of the third fleet arrived at sydney cove. In the Third Fleet 11 ships set sail from England with more than 2,000 convicts on board.

  • Two French Ships

    Two French Ships
    Two French Ships, Recherche and Esperance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania.

  • Sydney Cove

    Sydney Cove
    Sydney Cove was wrecked and some of the survivors traveled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson. Today Sydney Cove is a big tourist attraction and has lots of entertainment and cool things to look at. You can even catch ferries.

  • Tasmania is an island

    Tasmania is an island
    George Bass and Matthew Flinders proved that Tasmania is an island by sailing around Australia and gathering their observations.

  • Continent circumnavigation

    Continent circumnavigation
    Matthew Flinders was the first to complete a circumnavigation around the continent discovering new things that people had never discovered before.

  • A new Settlement

    A new Settlement
    A settlement was founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lt. John Bowen.

  • Rum Rebellion

    Rum Rebellion
    The Rum Rebellion took place in NSW when corps soldiers, led by
    major George Johnston, marched from their barracks and arrested Governer William Bligh.

  • Crossing the Blue Mountains

    Crossing the Blue Mountains
    3 people named Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains. This was the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in NSW by European settlers.

  • John Oxley charts the Lachlan River

    John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
    John Oxley made the first map of the Lachlan River.

  • The Macquarie River

    The Macquarie River
    Oxley made the first map of the Macquarie River.

  • A colony was founded at Moreton Bay

    A colony was founded at Moreton Bay
    A penal colony was founded at Moreton Bay( now know as Brisbane).

  • Van Diemens Land proclaimed

    Van Diemens Land proclaimed
    Van Diemens Land in New South Wales was proclaimed. It is the southeastern Australia island colony that became the commonwealth state of Tasmania.

  • King George the convict

    King George the convict
    In New South Wales established the first settlement in Western Australia as King George as a convict-supported military garrison named Frederick Town, but renamed Albany.

  • British Territory

    British Territory
    The whole of Australia was claimed British Territory by Major Edmund Lockyer.

  • The Darling River

    The Darling River
    Captain Charles Sturt made the first map of the Darling River.

  • Victoria and New South Wales

    Victoria and New South Wales
    The British Act Of Parliament separated NSW from VIC and named the new colony Victoria after Queen Victoria.