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First Fleet
Around 1500 men, women and children sailed in the First Fleet that left on 12 May 1787. Among them weremarines and a handful of other officers who were to administer the colony, and 772 convicts (of whom 732 survived the voyage) who were petty thieves from the London slums. -
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French Expidition
On 24 January 1788 a French expedition of two ships led by Admiral Jean-François de La Pérouse had arrived off Botany Bay, on the latest leg of a three-year voyage that had taken them from Brest, around Cape Horn, up the coast from Chile to California, north-west to Kamchatka, south-east to Easter Island, north-west to Macao, and on to the Philippines, the Friendly Isles, Hawaii and Norfolk Island -
Sydney Cove
The colony was formally proclaimed by Governor Phillip on 7 February 1788 at Sydney. Sydney Cove offered a fresh water supply and a safe harbour, which Philip famously described as: 'being with out exception the finest Harbour in the World ... Here a Thousand Sail of the Line may ride in the most perfect Security.’ -
Aborigines attack
The bodies of two rushcutters, William Okey and Samuel Davis, were found pierced with spears and beaten, evidently ion reprisal for stealing a canoe belonging to the Aborigines. -
Epidemic
In April 1789, just over fifteen months after the First Fleet of British convicts, sailors and marines had arrived in Port Jackson, the Aborigines of the Sydney region were seen to be dying in large numbers in the vicinity of the British settlement and up the harbour towards the Heads -
First Immigrants
When the Bellona transport came to anchor in Sydney Cove on 16 January 1793, she brought with her the first immigrant free settlers. -
First Gold Found
In 1823 James McBrien found traces of gold near Bathurst New South Wales. However. early discoveries of gold in Australia were hushed up by the authorities for fear that all convicts, soliders and public servants would stop work to hunt for their fortune. -
Establishment of WA
Western Australia was established when a small British settlement was established at King George's Sound (Albany) by Major Edmund Lockyer who was to provide a deterrent to the French presence in the area. -
British Province
The British province of South Australia was established. In 1842 it became a crown colony and on 22 July 1861 its area was extended westwards to its present boundary and more area was taken from New South Wales -
Adelaide Founded
he Adelaide plains were inhabited by the Kaurna tribe before European settlement, their territory extending from what is now Cape Jervis to Port Broughton. -
First Govenor of SA
Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh was a naval officer and the first Govenor of South Australia from 28 of December 1836 to the 16th of July 1838. -
Myall Creek
30 to 40 defenceless Aboriginal people were hacked and slashed to death. They were beheaded and their headless bodies were left where they fell untill two days later when they were burned. The stockmen's killing spree ended with camp of drinking and bragging about their killings. They then set out to find the ten Aboriginal people they had missed. They found them the next day and murdered most of them -
The gold nugget
In 1841, the Rev. WB CLarke found a gold nugget near Cox's River in the blue Mountains, NSW. When he showed the gold to Govenor Gipps, the Govenor said, 'Put it away, Mr Clarke or we shall all have our throats cut!' -
Van Deimans land
The colony of Van Diemen's Land is established in its own right; its name is officially changed to Tasmania on 1 January 1856. The first settlement was made at Risdon, Tasmania on 11 September 1803 when Lieut John Bowen landed with about 50 settlers, crew, soldiers and convicts -
Men's right to vote
All male British subjects 21 years and over were granted the right to vote in South Australia. Men with 100 pounds free-hold, 10 pounds annual value householders, 3 year lease of 10 pounds annual value, or depasturing licence were allowed to vote. -
First football game
Australian rules football was invented in Melbourne, Australia, and the first match identified as a direct precursor to the codification of Australian football was organised and refereed by Tom Wills and contested on 31 July 1858 between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College, across form the Melbourne Cricket Ground at the Richmond Paddock -
Explorers Burke and Wills
Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expidition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kiometers. With the bad luck of the expidtion nboth leaders died on the return journey. Altogether 7 men lost their lives and only one man John King crossed the continent and survived. -
Invasion of Waikato
In July 1863 British troops invaded the Waikato area and news of the continuing campaign spread through the Australian colonies.The invasion was aimed at crushing Kingite power that was seen as a threat to British authorityThe campaign was fought by a peak of about 14,000 Imperial and colonial troops and about 4000 Māori warriors drawn from more than half the major North Island tribal groups -
Hanging of Ned Kelly
Bushranger Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Irish Australian bushranger. Ned Kelly was hanged of the 11 of November 1880. Some concidered him a murderous villian ajnd others a folk hero. -
Man from snowy River
Banjo Paterson published The Man from Snowy River.The Man from Snowy river was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that escaped from its paddock and is living with the brumbies of the mountain ranges. -
Aboriginal rights to vote
Other than in Queensland and Western Australia, Aboriginal men were not excluded from voting alongside their non-indigenous counterparts in the Australian colonies and in South Australia Aboriginal women also acquired the vote from 1895 onwards. -
Right to Vote
Women over 21 were givin the right to vote. They were given a fairness to have their opinions aswell as men for who they wanted to run their country. -
Federation
The process was to make six seperate colonies. They agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia.
