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40,000 years ago Aboriginals Arivved in Australia
It is believed that aboriginals arethe first australians and they arrived here from Papa New Guinea. -
Captain Cook arrives
Captain James Cook arrives in Botay Bay then goes back to England to tell the queen about this new found land. -
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12 ships mainly convicts some soliders (first fleet)
12 ships arrived during this time including the first fleet was mainly convicts and soilders. It took them 6 months to get from England to Australia. -
Time of exploring (Bass and Flinders)
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Hobart was created
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Brisbane created
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Perth created
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Melbourne Created
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Adelaide Created
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Gold Rush
The Gold rush begins near Bathurst in NSW. When the gold rush began people came to Australia to find gold this sparks waves of migration from all over the world to find gold in Australia. -
Explorers Burke and Wills
On the evening of the 21st of April, three exhausted and starving, men two of which were Burke and Wills had died a week earlier leading two emaciated camels _ staggered back to the depot on the quiet banks of Cooper’s Creek. Then they got back and no one was there. -
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly was one of Australias greatest criminals, also known as the man of iron due to him making himself a bullet proof suit out of iron. Ned Kelly was on the run for 2 years. -
Australian Cutures begin (poets, painters, writers)
At around this time was when the culture of Australia began great Australian Poems like Waltzing Matilda and The man from Snowy River and many bush ballads. Many paintings of the Austrlian bush were painted. -
Fedaration
The federation of Australia was the six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. -
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World War 1
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Gallipoli
Australian troops land at Gallipoli. 7,594 Australian troops are lost. -
Old parliment house opens
It was the house of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988. -
Sdyney Harbor Bridge Opens
The Sadyney Harbor Bridge is one of Australia's grestest man made objects. It took eight years to build and over 1000 men to build it, it created many jobs at the time.
