Early settlers 1788-1888

  • Leaves England

    Leaves England
    They left England with eleven ships bound for Botany Bay.
  • First Fleet arrived at botany bay.

    First Fleet arrived at botany bay.
    They arrived at botany bay and saw that it wasn't a good place to settle so they moved on to sydney cove.
  • Sydney cove

    Sydney cove
    First fleet arrived at sydney cove after they realised that Botany Bay was not a sutable place to start a colony.
  • 2nd Fleet

    2nd Fleet
    The 2nd fleet arrives to help collonise Australia.
  • Rum Rebillion

    Rum Rebillion
    The New South Wales corps disposed of govenor William Bligh under the command of Major George Johnston.
  • Blue mountain expedition

    Blue mountain expedition
    William Lawson, William Wentworth and Gregory Blaxland were the first people to cross the Blue Mountains.
  • First Bank

    First Bank
    Australias first bank westpac was created.
  • New Colony

    New Colony
    A new colony was established at morton bay (Brisbane.)
    (Don't know exact date)
  • Queensland Founded

    Queensland Founded
    People started to settle into Qeensland as it broke away from New South Wales.
  • Swan river colony

    Swan river colony
    The swan river colony was the first colony to be established in WA.
  • A colony in Port Arthur

    A colony in Port Arthur
    A bran new colony was established in port Authur.
  • Convicts In WA

    Convicts In WA
    From 1850 throgh to 1868 9,721 covicts were transported to WA on 43 vessles.
  • Victoria declared a state

    Victoria declared a state
    Victoria was finally declared a state.
    (don't know exact date)
  • Gold Fever In Bathurst

    Gold Fever In Bathurst
    John Lister and William Tom found 120 grams of gold which led to the New South Wales gold rush.
  • Gold Rush In Ballarat

    Gold Rush In Ballarat
    The gold rush in bathurst was from 1854-1861 and the biggest hall of gold was in 1856 when 3,053,682 troy onces of gold were found.
  • Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade
    Victorian miners gathered on the 3rd of December to fight against the police in the hope of getting rid of the miners tax.
  • Ned Kelly Hanged

    Ned Kelly Hanged
    The deadly criminal Ned Kelly was hanged.
  • Australia beat England in the first ashes.

    Australia beat England in the first ashes.
    The first ever ashes series was a mark of Australia beating England at it's own game.
    (don't know date)
  • Coolgardie and Kargoolie gold rush

    Coolgardie and Kargoolie gold rush
    In 1898 when the gold rushes started to reach Western Australia, people started to flock there from all over the country.
  • White Australia Policy

    White Australia Policy
    The white Australia policy is a policy that made people who wanted to come into Australia have to do a test, which was very hard and was written in english. The policy was designed to keep Chinese people out of Australia.
  • Federation

    Federation
    Australia created a federal government.
  • Women voting rights

    Women voting rights
    The Australian government allowed women to vote and by 1911 all of the states and territories alowed women to vote.