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In the 1700s there were few jobs left and robbers stole things that cost over a shilling (about $50 in todays money) even though the penalty was harsh.
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To ease the pressure on overcrowded jails they sent some of the prisoners to their colonies in America to make room for more inmates.
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Captain Phillip left Britain with a lot of inmates and some families to make room for other families and inmates in Britain and picked up some more inmates along the way to Australia.
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After captain cook though Australia was a suitable place to send the convicts in 1770 he put up a flag and said he was claiming this land for the king of England .
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The Americans wanted to be an independent country but Britain wouldn't allow that and they had a war, when the war was over in 1783 that day was known as Independence Day.
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in 1788 Captain Cook arrived in Australia with his crew, the ships, the inmates and the families.
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When Captain Cook new that the place that they landed in was not a suitable place to set up they moved and found an area where the soil was rich and the plants would thrive.
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In the year of 1788 the first permanent village was made by the convicts.
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In 1789 Captain Phillip Abducted two Aboriginal people in hopes of learning more about them, he abducted Bennelong and one other Aboriginal.
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In 1789 the British named Sydney, Sydney.
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In 1790 Bennelong was set free and as soon as soon as he got out he stripped his clothes of and went back to his old life.
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In 1790 the Aboriginals speared Captain Phillip as payback for abducting Bennelong and the other Aboriginal.
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In 1790 the second fleet arrived after some delay.
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in 1806 governor William Bligh arrived in Australia.
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In 1814 Captain Arthur Phillip leads a very sad death.
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In 1838 a group of settlers captured then slaughtered around 30 Aboriginal people and the jury sentenced them to death but they protested and said that they thought it wasn't a crime to kill an Aboriginal.
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The amount of people in Australia in 1850 totalled to 300,000 people in total.
