Australian church history

By Bridget.Hadley3002
  • Period: 1520 to 1520

    Portuguese sailors explore some of the northern and eastern coast

  • A Spaniard de quiros calls Vanuatu 'la Australia del spiritu santo'

  • French sailors reach and describe the Great Barrier Reef

  • Captain cook arrived at Botany Bay

  • The first fleet arrived at Sydney cove

  • Small pox kills half the aborigines in Sydney area

  • First convict priest arrive

  • The first public mad is offered by father Dixon

  • Fathers accused of encouraging the Catholics in castle hill

  • Father Jeremiah arrived in England

  • The first official priest arrives

  • Father theory and Connolly go to Tasmania and bulids the first Catholic Church

  • European settlement in Western Australia

  • Father john arrives

  • Jh plunkett becomes a general and roger therry a judge

  • Father ullathorne arrives in Sydney

  • Father ullathorne arrives in Sydney

  • The Henry brothers begin settlement in Victoria

  • John bede polling becomes Australia's first catholic bishops

  • Ullathorne's book attacks the convict system

  • Caroline chrisholm arrives in Australia

  • James scullin is elected prime minister

  • The Great Depression

  • Father PJ Moloney begins the palm island and fantome island mission

  • Eucharistic congress in Melbourne

  • The grail begins in Australia

  • 2nd world war

  • The beginning of 'the movement'

  • Dr Woodbury begins the aquinas academy in Sydney

  • Post war migration from Europe begins

  • The bishops 'letter'makes all migrants feel at home

  • Father peyton 'the family that prays together stays together'

  • The week of prayer for Christian unity begins

  • The labor party split

  • Many new catholic schools

  • Pope pius xii dies

  • Publication of 'the living parish hymn book'

  • The secound Vatican council commences

  • Goulburn school strike

  • Pope john xxiii dies

  • Government money is given to Australian catholic schools

  • Project compassion is started

  • Pope Paul VI writes populorum

  • Pope Paul VI writes populurum progressio

  • The pope writes humanae vitae

  • The pope writes humanae vitae

  • Paul VI becomes the first pope to visit Australia

  • Pope VI becomes the first pope to visit Australia

  • Neville bonner becomes the first aboriginal member in parliament

  • Action for world development commences

  • First Maronite bishop in Australia

  • Marriage encounter spreads to Australia

  • First marriage encounter spreads to Australia

  • International women's year

  • First aboriginals priest ordained

  • International women's year

  • Social justice statement on women

  • Outlook magazine commences

  • The first catholic lay people graduate in theology

  • Pope john Paul II visits Australia

  • Women's movemnent in the Catholic Church

  • First Melkite bishop arrives

  • Pope john Paul II visits Australia

  • The jubilee year

  • The jubilee year

  • World youth day held in Sydney

  • World youth day held in Sydney

  • Mary MacKillop canonisation in Rome

  • Mary MacKillop canosiation in Rome