Australian Colonization By 7265 65,000 BCE Aboriginals Arrive 1606 Willem Janszoon lands in Western Australia 1619 Dirk Harthog lands in Western Australia Apr 19, 1770 Captain James Cook lands in Botany Bay in NSW Apr 23, 1770 Captain Cook's first experience with Aboriginals Jan 26, 1778 Convicts landed in Port Jackson 1795 First massacre 1803 Australia confirmed to be an Island 1808 Rum Rebellion occurs 1824 New Holland now called Australia 1829 England claims all of Australia 1834 The Henty family establish a settlement in Victoria 1835 Melbourne is established 1835 John Batman and John Fawkner travel across the Bass Strait the claim land near the Yarra River 1836 Batman signs treaties with the Aboriginals taking 250,000 hecares of land 1836 Convicts are sent from Sydney to work on Melbourne 1837 Melbourne is named and laid out 1838 First massacre against colonisers 1839 First convicts sent straight to Melbourne from England Period: 1840 to 1849 Aboriginals massacred 1841 New Zealand becomes it's own island 1843 First Election Happened Period: 1850 to 1859 Gold rush 1851 Victoria becomes separate 1861 Government confines Aboriginals Jan 1, 1901 Australia becomes its own country Period: 1914 to 1919 WW1 1929 Great Depression Period: 1939 to 1945 WW2 1967 Aboriginals get rights