Early Australia settlement

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  • James Cooks explore Australia

    James Cooks explore Australia
    In 1770 the England explore Captain James Cook came to the east coast of Australia there were no room for the british prison so the criminals were replace in the prison ship hulks they are being sent to Australia
  • The first Fleet

    The first Fleet
    In 1788 January 26th The First Fleet arived in Port jackson there were 11 ships and Captain Arthur Phillip was in charge of the First Fleet.
  • The second fleet

    The second fleet
    The Second Fleet is the name of the second fleet of ships sent with settlers, convicts and supplies to colony at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson, Australia. The fleet comprised six ships: one Royal Navy escort, four convict ships, and a supply ship.
  • The convicts

    During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government.
    Over the 80 years more than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.
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  • The Swan river colony

    The Swan river colony
    The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.
    The name was a pars pro toto for Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling, belatedly received his commission.
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  • Western Australia convict ship

    Western Australia convict ship
    Western Australia began its life as a free colony in 1829 and it was not until its 21st birthday in 1850 that the convict labour it sought to bolster its flagging economy finally arrived.
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  • Gold rush in Bathurst

    Gold rush in Bathurst
    New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880.
  • Castlemaine, Victoria

    Castlemaine, Victoria
    On 20 July 1851 gold was found near present-day Castlemaine, Victoria (Mt Alexander Goldfields) at Specimen Gully in today's Castlemaine suburb of Barkers Creek.
  • The Eureka Rebellion

     The Eureka Rebellion
    The Eureka Rebellion of year 1854 was a historically significant organised rebellion of gold miners of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom.
  • Ned Kelly

    Ned Kelly
    Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent. His legacy is controversial; some consider him to be a murderous villain, while others view him as a folk hero and Australia's equivalent of Robin Hood.
    Born: December 1854 Died: 1880 11 November.
  • The Dederation

    The Dederation
    The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania,South Australia , and Western Australia formed one nation.
  • White Australia policy

    White Australia policy
    The term White Australia Policy comprises various historical policies that intentionally favoured immigration to Australia from certain European countries, and especially from Britain. It came into fruition with the Federation in 1901, and the policies were progressively dismantled between 1949 and 1973.
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  • Exploration of the interior

    Exploration of the interior
    European explorers made their last great, often arduous and sometimes tragic expeditions into the interior of Australia over the period.