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A population collapse following European settlement, and a smallpox epidemic spreading three years after the arrival of Europeans may have caused a massive and early depopulation.
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This area was deemed to be unsuitable for settlement and they moved north to Port Jackson on 26 January 1788, landing at Camp Cove, known as 'cadi' to the Cadigal people.
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Traditional Polynesian navigation was used for thousands of years to make long voyages across thousands of miles of the open Pacific Ocean.
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Endeavour left New Zealand and sailed along the east coast of New Holland, or Australia, heading north.
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The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand.
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The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir.
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The British colonists force Aborigines to adopt British customs
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By the early 1900s, the United States, France, Great Britain, and Japan controlled most of the Pacific islands
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In 1927, Australia become independents.
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In 1962, January first, Samoan become a independence country.
