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The frontier conflict
The Australian frontier was a battle between the Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the British colonisation of Australia and started on the 26 january 1788. -
The Wool Industry
John Macarthur and Samuel Marsden were very important people that attempted to start a wool industry. Once they made the wool industry there were only fat tailed sheep in the colony which the first fleet with them but the sheep were not used for wool they were use for meat. -
The Rum Rebelion
The Rum Rebellion started in the 1808 and was the only successful attack of the government in Australian history. During the 19th century, it was referred to as the Great Rebellion. -
Gold Rush
The first Gold Rush in Australia began in May 1851 when Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near a town called Orange, at a site he called Ophir. -
The Eureka Stockade
The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion that started in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia who attacked against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. -
The Advent Of Rail
Australia's first rail systems were mostly built when the country consisted of sparsely settled colonies, before they combined to form a Federation of States in 1901.
Until the middle of the 1800s, people travelled around the colonies of the Australian continent by horse-drawn transport and by coastal shipping services.