Australia timeline

  • Event 1

    captain cook lands on the eastern shore of australia and claims it for great britain
  • event 2

    new penal colony of great britain is set up on australia after the american revolution
  • event 3

    many ship-fulls of people are sent to the penal colony in australia. sonn men outnumber women 20-1 ratio
  • event 4

    Permission was granted to change the name of the continent from "New Holland" to "Australia"
  • event 5

    gold rushes in australia pull it out of global economy collapse. Great waves of migration are released to come to australia
  • event 6

    All men over 21 years of age obtained the right to vote in South Australia.
  • event 7

    The Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opened.
  • event 8

    Uluru was first sighteed by Europeans renamed Ayers Rock
  • event 9

    The first attempt at a federal constitution was drafted.
  • event 10

    the australian flag was flown for the first time