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Captain James Cook
In 1770 cook sighted the South Coast of the Australian continent, near Gippsland in Victoria. He mapped New Zealand then moved on to the East Coast of Australia -
Captain James Cook
1770 Captain James Cook was the first European to discover Australia. Many people have said that Captain James Cook was an Outstanding Seaman. They arrived in Botany Bay and mapped the East Coast of Australia. Cook then came back to England to report his findings. -
The First Fleet
1788 The First Fleet was a ship filled with convicts who were the first Englishman to sail to Australia. The convicts had broken the law in England. They were sent to prison in England, but the prison was to full. -
Mathew flinders
Mathew Flinders circumnavigated Australia. He mapped all around Australia. He sailed into Sydney in 1802 then he sailed around Australia making many descoveries. -
Van Dieman's
Massacres of Van Diemen’s Land Aborigines. Van dieman’ s land was the original name used by European’s. Van Dieman’s land was the primary penal colony of Australia. -
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay ( Brisbane) colony gets Established. -
South Australia
South Australia Colony is founded. Official settlement began on the 28th of December 1836. It became a state in 1901. This was an important time when Australia’s population expanded. -
John Batman
John Batman attempts to make a ‘treaty’ with the local Aboriginal people from port Phillip. Governor Bourke does not recognise the deal and stops it. -
Paul Strzelecki
Polish Explorer Paul Strzelecki names the highest mountain in Australia after Polish hero Kosciusko. -
Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm opens a home for young Immigrant woman. She was always helping Australians through their life. She also helped with the colonisation of Australia. -
Mahogany Ship
There have been many reports of a wreck called the ‘Mahogany ship’. There is a mystery that nobody knows about what language the ship was named by, it could be French, Portuguese or Chinese. -
Gold Rush
The Gold rush begins near Bathurst in NSW. When the gold rush began people came to Australia to find gold. -
Burke And Wills
On the evening of the 21st of April, three exhausted, starving, tattered scarecrows of men they were Burke and Wills had died a week earlier leading two emaciated camels _ staggered back to the depot on the quiet banks of Cooper’s Creek. Then they got back and no one was there. -
Uluru
Uluru is sighted by the Europeans. Uluru is found in Alice Springs in Northern territory. -
The Federation
The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. -
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin is elected as Prime Minister. In the last quarter of the 19th century Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria.
