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On the 20 of april Captain Cook makes the first European sitighting of the eastern cost of Australia, on the 29 of April he enters Botany Bay.
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After an encounter with local people Cook wrote in his jurnal the aboriganls just wanted us to be gone.He charts the eastern coast all the way to the north tip of Cape York, claims it all for England and calls it New South Wales.
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they stoped in the Canary Islands, Rio De Janerio and Cape Town.
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The First Fleet departed Portsmouth in England in 1787.
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Captain Arthur Pillip and thhe First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay beetween the 18 and 20 of January 1788.
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Botany Bay was unsuitable for settlemnt so they moved to Port Jackson on the 26 of January 1788.
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The second fleet arrived in Australia. It was called the death fleet.
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Free Settlers start to arrive in Australia 1793.
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The first british settlement at Risdon 1803 Lieutenant John Bowen landed with about 50 setterles, crew, soldiers and convicts.
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Lieutenant David Collins established a settlement at Hobart in Februry 1804.
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The site was abbandoned in 1804.
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In 1823 the British goverment opened a New South Wales Parliment.
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Van Diemen's Land was established in it;s own right in 1825.
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Western Australia was established in 1827.
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The end of transportation to mainland,Australia, by wich time some 150,000 convicts have been sent to the colonies. All convicts are now to be sent to Van Diemen's Island.
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Transportation to Van Diemen's land is put on hold for two years, as too many convicts flooding into the colony, and the system is at breaking point.
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In 1851 Vctoria was seperated from New South Wales.
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Queensland was seperated from New South Wales.
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Queensland becoming the only Australian colony to begin life with it's own parliment instead of first spending time as a crown colony.
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The New South Wales goverment opened up the selection of Crown land.
