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The aboriginal owners were the first people on the land
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The dutch east Indians explored the western coast of the peninsula
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Captain Phillip sailed to Sydney cove in the evening
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Captain Phillip issued the first government conservation order in the Sydney cove (that no trees should be cut down within 50 feet ,15 metres)
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A settlement was founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lt. John Bowen.
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Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opened in Macquarie Place, Sydney.
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The penal settlement of Port Arthur was founded in Van Diemen's Land.
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Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. This practice lasted 100 years and is known as the Stolen Generation.
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South Australia became the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
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The constitution was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and was given royal assent
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world war 1 started it was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's.
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world war 1 ended
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
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Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
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2002 Bali bombings, the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people
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