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The Dutch from the Netherlands arrived in Australia.
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The first voyage of James Cook. The voyage included Dutch East Indies, Australia and New Zealand.
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The British arrived in Australia. They called the land New South Wales.
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Second voyage of James Cook. He visited New Zealand, Antartic Circle, Tahiti, and South around Cape of Good Hope.
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James cook spent three years visiting all the places mentioned in the second voyage.
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The third voyage included Alaska, California and Hawaiian Islands.
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The third voyage also lasted three years.
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The first prisoners arrived and their ships were called the First Fleet.
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New South Wales was officially a penal colony.
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Port Author was the destination for the hardest of convicted criminals, both British and Irish.
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Port Arthur convict settlement in 1838
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The Common Wealth of Australia was established; Immigration Restriction Act which limited immigration to Australia and formed the basis of the White Australia policy which sought to exclude all non-Europeans from Australia.
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The federal government began to pass legislation to help the aborigines.
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Australia Act severed all legal ties with the British Empire. Queen Elizabeth II signed her Assent to the Australia Act on March 2, 1986.
