Australian History: Indigenous Perspective By Winstonw 70,000 BCE Earliest evidence of indigenous peoples in Australia. 1770 The Capt. Arrives Captain Cook arrives in botany bay. 1788 The Arrival First Fleet arrives 1828 Martial law is declared against Indigenous Australians 1829 Truganini meets George Augustus Robertson 1835 The wholesale expansion of British colonisation into Australia 1863 Coranderrk Government reserve for Indigenous communities 1924 Coranderrk closes 1938 Day of Mourning 1965 Freedom Ride 1972 establishment of Aboriginal tent embassy 1992 Mabo case 2007 Northern Territory Intervention 2008 THE Apology