Australin timeline 1750-2005

By Ebby

  • Cook charts the East Coast

    Captain James Cook sighted the East Coast of Australia. On the 28th of April he landed at Botany Bay.

  • French arrived at Botany Bay

    French man, La Perouse, anchored off the shore of Botany Bay. Two days later, he set up camp on ther shores.

  • The second fleet arrive

    The Second Fleet of six convicts, arrived at Sydneys cove.

  • The Third Fleet arrives

    The Third Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour, carrying a large number of convicts.

  • Bass and Bass Strait

    George Bass sailed from Sydney to explore the the South Coast of New South Wales. He Reached Victoria, and discover escaped convicts on Glennie Island. When Bass returened The Governer was convinced the Bass's voyage had proven Van Diemen's Land was saperated from the Mainland. It was named Bass Strait, after George Bass.

  • Settlement at Hobart

    Captain David Collins landed on shore of the River Derwent, A small settlement already existed there. However, ACollins settlement was made on the present site of Hobart.

  • Settlement at Brisbane

    Explorer John Oxely led an expedition to establish a colony on ther Northern Coast of New South Wales. He choose a site on the shores of moreton Bay. The present-day suburb of Redcliffe, Brisbane.

  • Van Dieman's land becomes a colony

  • Bushranging begins

  • Convicts sent to Western Australia

  • End of transportation to Van Diemens land

  • First Melbourne Cup

  • End of convicts in Western Australia

    The last ship to transport convicts to Western Australia arrived at Fremantle. It carried 229 convicts, including 57 Irish revolutionaries.

  • Alice Springs discovered

    Springs of water were discovered in central Australia by surveyors William Whitfield Mills and John Ross. The surveyor named the main spring Alice Springs, after Alice Todd, the wife of Charles Todd, South Australia's post-master general.

  • Uluru first sighted by European

    Explorer Ernest Giles bacame the first non-Aboriginal person to see Uluru. The rock was later named Ayer Rock by explorer William Goss after chief secretary in the South Australian Government. In the 80's the Aboriginals named the rock, Uluru,

  • Women at university

  • The Kelly Gang is formed

    Police Constbale Fitzpatrick was wounded while attempting to arrest Dan Kelly at the Kelly home in North-Eastern Victoria. Dan and Ned Kelly took to the bush to escape arrest.

  • 'Captain Moonlight' caputred

    Bushranger, Andrew Scott, known as 'Captin Moonlight', was captured near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. Moonlight was tried on December 8th and hanged on 20th January 1880.

  • End of Kelly Gang

  • First lifts and High-rise Bulidings

  • Australian troops serve over seas

    The New South Government sent a small military force of 750 soldiers to support English forces fighting rebels in Sudan. The soldiers left Australia in February and returned in June.

  • Australians at the Boer War

  • Boer War ends

  • The Titanic sinks

    The luxury British passenger liner the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean by an iceberg that ripped a long hole in th side. 1513 people drowned.

  • Canberra named

  • Joseph Cook, Prime Minister

  • Andrew Fisher, Prime Minster

  • World War 1 begins

    World War 1 broke out in Europe. The powerful nations of the world engaged in a bloody battle, that lasted four years. Millions of lives were lost, most in Trench Warfare on the Western Front.

  • The ANZACs

    When news of the Britian's declaration of the war on Germany reached Australia. Australia sent 20 000 troops in support of the Bristish war.

  • The battle at Broken Hill

    Two men flying a turkish plain attacked a train travelling to Broken Hill to Silverton. The attackers killed 4 people and wounded 7. The attackers were also killed. Turkey was an ally for the Germans in World War 1, and therefore and enemy of Australia.

  • Billy Hughes, Prime Minister

  • The ANZACs at Gallipoli

    The ANZACs, together with the British force, landed near Gallipoli in Turkey. The ANZACs landed at 8.00am. Huge numbers of troops lost their lives on both sides.

  • Withdrawl from Gallipoli

    The ANZACs withdrew from Gallipoli. It proved to be a successful operation of the campiagn. During the entire war, 70 000 turks lost their lives, 8587Australians were killed, and 19 367 were wounded.

  • First ANZAC Day

  • Population reaches million

  • Germany defeated

  • Spanish flu in Australia

  • QANTAS is founded

    Queensland and Nothern territory Aerial Service was formed in Longreach, Queensland. It began with sight seeing flights, but in 1922, the airline began a regular service between Cloncurry and Charlevillein Queensland. Today passengers can fly all over Australia, and the world, in QANTASplanes.

  • Hitler and the Nazis

    Adolf Hitler joined and became leader of the German Workers Party. He re-named it the Nazi Party. The Nazi were racists , and thought the state was more important than the individual citizens. They belived that Germany should be 'cleansed' of all Jews, gypsises and disabled people.

  • Population reaches 6 million

  • World-wid depression

    The world was plunged into severe depression. It was triggered by the collapse of the New York Stock exchange on 29th of October, when billions of dollars were wiped off the value of stock and shares. Banks and other buisnesses cloised. Millions of people throughtout the world were thrown into poverty.

  • Sydney Harbour Bridge opened

    Work began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1923. It was completed in1932. The bridge was thought up by engineer John Job Crew, who decided what kind of bridge should be bulit, and its speculation. The length of the bridge is 1149 metre, with the length of the arch, 503 metres. The bridge cost $9.5 million to build.

  • Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister

  • The rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany

  • The first Nazi Concentration Camp

  • Hitler and the Spanish Civil War

    The German Luftwaffe bombed and almost completely destroyed the Spanish city Guernica, killing thousands of civilians.

  • Beginning of the Holocaust

    Nazi party members in Germany attacked the buisness of Jewish people in German cities. seven thousand, five hundred Jewish buisnesses were destroyed. Ninety-one Jews died, and 25 000 Jewish men were arrested.

  • Population reaches 7 million

  • World War 2 begins

    German forces attacked Poland. Britian had warned Germany that it would not tolorate an attack at Poland. Two days later, both Britian and France declared war on Germany and World War 2 began.

  • Australia at war with Germany

    Australia declared war on Germany. This immediatly followed Britian's declaration of war on Germany. The first shot was fired by Point Nepeanat the entrance to Prot Phillip Bay. It was fired at a German merchant ship leaving the bay.

  • The Holocaust

  • Japanese attack PearlHarbour

  • Australians prisoners in Changi prison camp

  • Australia bombed by the Japanese

  • End of War for Europeans

    The US bomber plane dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, completely destrying it. Nine days later the Japanese surrended. Tens of Thousands of Japanses people were killed.

  • End of War for Australia

    Australia celbrated the end of the war in Europe. Then on 15 August, greater celebrations took place when Japan surrended to the Allied Forces to end World War 2. Hundreds of Thousands of people flocked to the street of the capital cities to express their joy. Approximately 40 000 Australian servicmen and women lost thier lives during the six years of war, and more than 180 000 people were wounded.

  • Australia and the Korean War

  • Melbourne Olympic Games

    The games become known as the friendly games becuase of the way thee closing ceremony was conducted. Since Melbourne, all the games have ben closed the same way.

  • Vietnam War

    The Australian Federal Government sent 29 military instructors to Vietnam to train the South Vietnamese Army . This was the begining of Australia's active invovlemant in the war.

  • Vietnam War

    The Australian Government sent Australian troops to fight alongside the Americans and South Vietnamese in Vietnam.

  • Harold Holt, Prime Minister

    leader of the Liberal Party become Prime Minister of Australia.

  • More troops to Vietnam War

  • Aboriginal Rights

    Australian people were asked to vote for Aboriginals to be the respnsibility of the Federal Government.

  • John McEwan, Prime Minister

  • John Gorton, Prime Minster

  • Population reaches 12 million

  • Equal pay for women

  • First man on the moon

  • Westgate bridge collapses

  • Billy McMahon Prime Minister

  • daylight savings introduced

  • Population reaches 13 million

  • First terroist attack

  • Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister

  • voting age reduced to 18 years old

  • Sydney Operah House opened

  • End of Vietnam War

  • Tasman Bridge collapses

  • Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister

  • Refugees from Vietnam in Darwin

  • New national anthem

  • Baby Azaria and the Dingos

  • population reaches 16 million

  • Population reaches 15 million

  • Commonwealth Games held at Brisbane

  • Ash Wednesday fires

  • Nuclear World War 3 avoided

  • Population Reaches 16 million

  • Shoot Massacres in Melbournes

  • Refugees from China

  • Port Authur massacre

  • Refugees arrive by boat

  • Olympic games in Sydney

  • 9/11 Bombings

  • Bali Bombings

  • January Bushfires

  • Population Reaches 20 million

  • Iraq War

  • East Coast Bushfires in Tasmania

  • Queensland floods