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April 29th 1770- Captain James Cook claims possesion of the whole East Coast of Australia for the British Crown.
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1 Jan 1778 Between 1778 and 1850, 806 ships of convicts were shipped to Australia from England. The first 11 of these ships are now known as “The First Fleet”. The fleet consisted of three store ships, six convict ships, two men o-war ships with a total of 756 convicts
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1 Jan 1803 Matthew Flinders was a navigator that sailed around the coast of Australia and was the first of many navigators to map the “unknown land”. The few land marks that were named are Mt. Lofty, Cape Catastrophe, Memory Cove and Kangaroo island.
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1813- Colonists, assisted by Aboriginal people, cross the blue mountains and create new hostilities as they pass through Aboriginal land.
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1824 Matial law is proclaimed in the Bathwest area whenseven Eueopeans were killed by Aboriginal people.
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1829 A colony is set up in Perth, on the Southwest coast of Australia.
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1835 John Batman attemps to make a treaty with Aboriginal people for Port Phillip Bay.
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1836 The colony of South Australia is founded.
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1838 Major Nunn's campaign
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1851 The developement of a system pastrol lessons in South Australia begins.
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1857 Aboriginal people attack settlers on Dawson River.
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1872 The Kalkadoon wars
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1886 The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act
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1901 Federation of Australia
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1905 The western Aboriginal act is passed