First free settlers arrive for a new life in Australia
New colony set up for convicts on Tasmania. Free settlers soon follow.
Gold discovered in Australia - even more settlers arrive. Population now nearly half a million.
By now, about half the people living in Australia were born there.
A new province is set up - Called Victoria ( named after Queen Victoria).
Four of the five provinces of Australia granted "self-government". They manage most of their own affairs but are still part of the Bristish Empire.
Queensland, the last colony to be created, comes into existence.
Now over 80 percent of people in Australia were born there. The six colonies meet to draw up a set of rules about how to run Australia as a united country, independent of Britain.
The " Commonwealth of Australia" comes into existence. All the territories form one "Federation" with its own Parliament. But the British monarch remains the head of state !
By now all six provinces or territories are "self-governing".
