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Age of Exploration, with the invention of many new devices that allowed people to travel and venture further into the world with inventions such as compasses, navigation, shipbuilding and maps
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Abel Tasman discovered the west coast of Tasmania.
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John Daniel briefly charted the west coast of Australia.
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William Dampier discovered the western coast of Australia.
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Willem de Vlamingh discovered the south-western coast of Australia and the present day site of Perth.
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The Americans rebelled against the English -
Voyage of Captain Cook ( the first )
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Captain Cook claimed the land of Australia, and the eastern coast of Australia was fully charted.
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Voyage of Captain Cook ( the second )
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Voyage of Captain Cook ( the third)
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Australia was planned to be colonised within the next two years
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The First fleet, composed of 11 ships, filled with 700 convicts, 17 of are children, and 20 died on the journey, led by Captain Arthur Philip.
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The first fleet stops in Rio temporarily to resupply food and water as well as clean the fleet up.
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Over 90% of Aborigines in Australia were killed during the colonisation of Australia from,
1. Direct gunfire and pushing them of cliffs
2. Poisoning Aborigines food
3. Acqusation of Aboriginal land by the settlers
4. [Unintentional] Introducing hundreds of new diseases from the harsh journey on the First Fleet/Second Fleet/Third Fleet -
The first of the ships in the First Fleet starts to arrive to Australia.
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The first of the 11 ships of the Second Fleet departs.
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Another fleet prvided new convicts, and food and supplies. Most of the convicts were ill, and over 300 convicts died on the Second Fleet, sometimes known as the Death Fleet.
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The third fleet, composed of another 11 ships, with over 2000 more convicts
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The first of the ships in the third fleet begins to anchor in Sydney's penal colony
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Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed from Sydney and circumnavigated Tasmania, proving it to be a separate island from Australia.
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Regular people started to use the phrase Terra Australis or Australia instead of New Holland
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Matthew Flinders is the first to circumnavigate Australia and prove that the west and east coast of Australia is the same
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Brisbane was discovered and colonised.
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Perth established by Captain James Stirling in West Australia
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Adelaide was discovered and established as South Australia's capital.
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Gold is discovered and many people from many countries begin to visit Australia to find gold
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On the first, of the first month, of 1901, Australia became Independent.
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Edmund Barton is the first Prime Minister of Australia
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Second Prime Minister of Australia
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On the 25th of April 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula
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At 90% yes votes, Aborigines have been given full constitutional rights.
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