Identity Australia Timeline

By haydos0110

  • Aborigines arrive in Australia, date is unknown

  • The First Fleet arrives on the shores of Australia

  • Mathew Flinders completes circumnavigation of Australia

  • Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains

  • Victorian Gold Rush starts in Ballarat

  • Eureka Stockade

  • Transportation of convicts to Australia ceases

  • Australia becomes a Federation

  • Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War

  • The Great Depression hits Australia

  • Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened

  • Australian soldiers sent to Second World War

  • Indigenous Australians are given full rights as citizens

  • Decimal currency is introduced in Australia

  • Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy

  • Australia celebrates bicentenary