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Australian History

By lia.handley

  • Convicts Arrive

    Convicts Arrive
    1. The First 543 convict men and the first 189 convict women arrive
    2. Th first convict are hung for stealing provitions
    3. Two convict rushcutters are killed by aboriginis near Rushcutter Bay

  • Death in the 1700's

    Death in the 1700's
    1. Smallpox epidemic inpacts indigenous Australians, having apparently spread down from the northern coast of te contonet
    2. As supplies began to run low, six marines are hanged for robbing the local shops

  • Stavation Ends

    Stavation Ends
    The Lady Juliana, a boat with 226 female convicts arrivs with the first supplies to support the NSW colony since settlement 1788. The hungry population entusasticaly welcoms the supplys (and women)

  • Governor Philip Leaves

    Governnor Philip leaves the settlement to return to England

  • White People in NSW

    White People in NSW
    NSW wite population was close to 5,000. Nearly three quarters of are people are subsided by govorment rations

  • Matthew Flinders Discovers Queensland

    Matthew Flinders Discovers Queensland
    During th eyear of 1802 Matthew Flinders Discovers Queensland

  • More White People in NSW

    More White People in NSW
    There are now nearly 12,000 white people in the the colonys of NSW and Van Demans Land

  • Even More White People in NSW

    Even More White People in NSW

  • First Gold Rush

    First Gold Rush
    The first major gold strikes, wit gold found near bathust in NSW