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First Fleet sails from England
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HMS Supply arrives in Botany Bay
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The rest of the first fleet arrives in Botany Bay
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Arthur Phillip discovers Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)
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On 26 fo Jan 1788 the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay
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The first fleet moved from Botany Bay to Port Jackson to start a settlement.
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First Fleet arrives in Sydney Cove
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First Fleet moved from Botany Bay to Port Jackon to start a settlement
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Lieutenant King sails to Norfolk Island
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One of the ships from the first fleet sails for Norfolk.
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Captain arthur Phillip is appointed Governor of NSW
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1789 - 1792 There is drought, starvation and sickness in the colony
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April to September a smallpox epidemic strikes the Eora people
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The second fleet arrives bringing 1,000 sick and starving convicts
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Captain Phillip is wounded by a Eora man
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Between September and Otober the Third Fleet arrives bringing 2,000 more convicts
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Governor Phillip leaves Australia for England
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The first attpt at settlement in Victoria was ade by Lieutenant David Collins and his party of soldiers and convicts
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The colony of Van Diemen's Land was established and changed to Tasmania on 01/01/1856
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Western Australia was establihed in 1827. Major Edmund Lockyer established a British settlement and in 1829 the new swan river colony was officially announced and Captain James Stirling was its first governer. www.http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia
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Edward Hargraves discovered a grain of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst.
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia
