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Cook charts the East Coast
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British Settlement of NSW
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Arrival of the Second Fleet
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The Rum Rebellion
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Van Diemen's Land becomes a colony
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Bushranging
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Myall Creek Massacre
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The first Gold Rush
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Eureka rebellion
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Burke and Wills cross the country
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The Melbourne Cup
Australia's first Melbourne Cup is held. The winning horse was Briseis. -
Australia's first overseas cricket tour
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Uluru discovered by Europeans
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The Kelly gang is formed
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The 'White Australia' policy
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Australian troops serve overseas
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Federation call for a united Australia
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The Great Depression
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The Boer War
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Australia's first Prime Minister
Australia has its first Prime Minister, Edmund Barton -
Federal voting right for women
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The sinking of the Titanic
Luxury cruise ship- The Titanic- hit an iceberg, killing 1503 people, including few Australians. -
World War 1
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The ANZACs
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The ANZACs at Gallipoli
Together with the British forces, the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli in Turkey at 8.00am. On the 8th of December, 1915, they withdrew from Gallipoli. -
First ANZAC day is celebrated
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WW1 ends, troops come home
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Hitler and the Nazis
Adolf Hitler joined and became the leader of the German Workers Party, renaming it the Nazi party. They were a group of racist men who beleived Germany should be 'clensed' of all Jews, gypsies and disabled people. -
Construction begins on Sydney Harbour Bridge, opens 1932
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The Great Depression (worldwide)
The world was plunged into a economic depression that was triggered by the collapse of the New York stock exchange. It came to Australia in 1931 -
Phar Lap dies in the USA
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Hitler becomes German President
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The beginning of the Holocaust
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World War 2 begins
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The Holocaust
German Government call for plans to exterminate the Jewish people living in Germany. The plan was called the "Final Solution', which killed six million Jews -
Australia decleres war on Japan
This followed the attacks by Japan on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Guam. -
Darwin bombed by Japanese
The first raid of 60 attacks on the city. Later attacks were made on Broome, Wyndham and Townsville -
Kokoda Trail
Japanese troops land at Gona, Papua New Guinea. Australia and Japan fought on the trail, with Australia trying to prevent the Japanese from advancing -
End of World War 2
Germany surrenders following the suicide of Hitler 8 days earlier. -
The Korean War
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The Vietnam War
Australia joined the war in 1962. It ended in 1973 -
Aboriginal Rights
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More troops for the Vietnam War
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Equal pay for women
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The first man on the moon
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Australia's first terroist attack
Croatian terroists exploaded two bombs outside a travel agency in Sydney -
Cyclone Tracy Hits Darwin
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End of the Vietnam war
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Colour TV
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Australia's first case of HIV/AIDS
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Port Arthur Massacre
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Sydney Olympics
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Bali bombing
Indonesian terroists exploded two bombs near a popular nightckub in Bali. 202 people were killed, 88 of them being Australian -
Australia at war with Iraq
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Global Financial Crisis
