history st helena island

By niko287j
  • Period: May 3, 1400 to

    st helena island

  • Period: to

    st helena island

  • First fleet arives

    first fleet arives at botany bay and then transfers the setlement to port jackson (sydney harbour)

  • Chiken poks kill half of aboriginals in sydney

    struck aboriginal comunity as the didn't have immunity.the europeans were relatively unscathed.
  • Second fleet arives

    Second fleet arives

    consisted of 6 ships 226 female convicts on first ship to arive one other ship hit an iceberg and sunk

  • J mcbrien first sighting of gold GOLD RUSH

  • first official reports of gold in australia

    by J mcbrien.the information was supressed
  • NSW govenmrent starts

    NSW govenmrent starts

    held its first meeting at the government house on 25th of august 1824

  • Gold find near Hartley

    geologist P.E strzeleki and Rev W.B clarke find gold near hartley

  • Transport of convicts stopped GOLD RUSH

  • GOLD DISCOVERD IN CALAFORNIA GOLD RUSH

  • Started sending convicts

  • st helena started

    began operation as a penal colony although was originaly intended for being a quarintine station

  • BOGO JAIL opens

    BOGO ROAD JAIL OPENS in 1883

  • World war 1 started

  • world war I ended

    world war I ended

  • St helena island closes

  • Stopped sending convicts