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Australian Migration Patterns and Major events Timeline

  • Indigenous Migration
    Jan 1, 1000

    Indigenous Migration

    -40,000
    Indigenous Migration
  • Period: Mar 26, 1000 to

    time

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet

    Europeans arrive, ships, convicts, from England, UK wants to get rid of criminals becuase the prisons were overcrowded.
  • 79000 free settlers are in Australia

    79000 free settlers are in Australia

    Germans & Italians arrive
  • Golden Year

    Golden Year

    Gold Discovered in VIC, NSW, QLD. People moved to goldfields from Aus and over seas
  • Population

    Population

    Population almost tripled. most people lived in the city
  • Federation

    Federation

  • WW1

    WW1

    until 1918
  • 1800's Later early free settlers arrive

    1800's Later early free settlers arrive

  • today