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George Bass
George Bass (30 January 1771 - after 5 February 1803) was a British naval doctor and explorer of Australia. George Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at As warby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George Bass, and a local beauty named Sarah Nee Newman. His father died in 1777 when Bass was 6. He had attended Boston Grammar School and later trained in medicine at the hospital at Boston, Lincolnshire. -
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Australian Colonial History
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First Fleet
Captain Arthur Phillip and a gang of officers and marines landed in Sydney Cove and raised the Union Jack (the British flag) to proclaim New South Wales as a British colony. -
First Fleet
It was the middle of summer, so there was small fresh water or fertile soil at Botany Bay. Captain Phillip decided to take some crew and sail north to find a good location. They found the sky blue waters of a protected harbour that Phillip named Sydney after the British Home Secretary, Lord Sydney. On 26 January 1788 (Australia Day). -
George Bass
At the age of 18 he was accepted in London as a member of the Company of Surgeons, and in 1794 he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon.He got lost at sea. -
Gold Rush
Early gold discoveries in Australia were kept silent as many feared a gold rush would plunge the largely convict population into chaos and lawlessness. However the rush to California depleted the new colonies miniature population and forced the authorities to think differently about Australian gold. Self-styled knight. -
Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly is Australia's most famous bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of colonial
Ned was born in Victoria, probably in December, 1854. As a boy he attended school and risked his life to save another boy who was drowning. As a reward he was given a sash, which he would wear under his armour during his final show down with police. -
Ned Kelly
Ned's father passed away when Ned was only 12, and he was forced to leave school to help take care of his family. It was at this time that the Kelly family moved to the Glenrowan area of Victoria, which to this day is known as Kelly Country. Ned grew up in poverty in some of the hardest conditions in Australia, and folk tales tell of his sleeping on the ground in the bush during the Victorian. -
Aussie Federation
In 1860 there were six British colonies in Australia. The main laws of the colonies were made by the British Parliament.
At first the colonies had little to do with each other. But in 1872 telegraph linked the colonies, and the idea of being 'Australian' began to be celebrated in songs and poems, and by the 1890s the idea of federation was becoming popular.
