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Captain James Cook sighted the East Coast of Australia. On the 28th of April he landed at Botany Bay.
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French man, La Perouse, anchored off the shore of Botany Bay. Two days later, he set up camp on ther shores.
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The Second Fleet of six convicts, arrived at Sydneys cove.
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The Third Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour, carrying a large number of convicts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The last ship to transport convicts to Western Australia arrived at Fremantle. It carried 229 convicts, including 57 Irish revolutionaries.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The German Luftwaffe bombed and almost completely destroyed the Spanish city Guernica, killing thousands of civilians.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Australian Government sent Australian troops to fight alongside the Americans and South Vietnamese in Vietnam.
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leader of the Liberal Party become Prime Minister of Australia.
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Australian people were asked to vote for Aboriginals to be the respnsibility of the Federal Government.
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