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1750-1900 Crime was really big in Britain
Crime became massive due to not many people earning money because of the Industrial Revoultion. Which meant jails became full and Britain needed a place for convicts to go. -
1760-1830 Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution started in 1760 and that's when the world discovered machines and how to work/use them. It was also a time of low wealth due to most of people's jobs taken by machines. -
1770 Dicovery of Australia
Captain James Cook was sent to find a place for the convicts by King George The third -
1788-Colonisation of Australia
The colonisation of Australia is when Captain Arthur Phillip sailed to Sydney,Australia. There were 11 ships with a mix of convicts and free settlers to build Australia and get rid of all the prisoners in Britain. -
The Second Fleet
Thomas Edgar led the Second fleet into Botnay Bay, 1790 -
The Third Fleet
The third fleet arrived at Botany Bay, 1791 -
1825-The New colony
Tasmania separated from NSW and became it's own colony. -
Swan River Colony
The western part of Australia became a colony called the Swan River colony -
The New Name
The Swan River colony changed its name back to W.A -
The colony of S.A.
The colony of S.A. was established -
1851-Victoria
The southern part of NSW broke off and became Victoria -
1851-Goldrush at Bathurst
The discovery of gold at Bathurst, people all around the world came to Australia for Gold and made Australia's population much bigger. -
The Eureka Rebillion
The Eureaka Rebillion is when the digger at the goldfields in Ballarat thought they shouldn't have licenses so they had a battle against the police -
1859-Colony of Queensland
The northern-east part of NSW became Queensland -
1861-1865 American Civil war
The American civil war is when the U.S.A decided that they didn't want to be under Britain and be their own country but Britain disagreed so they had war which lasted 5 years then Britain gave up and the U.S.A one and became their own country. So it made life more difficult for Britain because they couldn't send convicts to America. -
1863
The colonial borders aphid been finalised with 6 different colonies (TAS,NSW,VIC.QLD,WA,SA) -
The Common wealth of Australia
On 1.1.1901 the Austrlain shapes became one colony and formed the Commonwealth of Australia -
The Austrlaian Flag
Australia got its flag
