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The Europeans actually didn't really sail to Australia, and it didn't actually happen on March 1, but it did happen in late February and early March.
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Captain James Cook sailed around the easstern coast of Australia.He named the ares New South Wales. He ignored the Aborigines living there and claimed it s being England.
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"First Fleet" is one of the 11 British ships were leaving England. They left England with convicts to establish a prison colony.
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British prisoners settled in Australia.
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The prison colony consisting mainly of convicts, marines (guards), and the marines’ families. Only 20% of the first convicts were women.
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New South Wales was considered a penal (prison) colony.
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New South Wales was oficially a penal or prison colony
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From 1833, until the 1850s, it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders having re-offended after their arrival in Australia.
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1861: government officials created boundaries for the colonies that are still in place today
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New South Wales had to stop sending prisoners to Australia.
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January 1, 1901: the Commonwealth of Australia was established.
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1967: federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aborigines
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all legal ties with the British Empire were severed
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55% of voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic.
