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captain cook lands in botany bay.
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the first fleet arrived in australia.
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joseph banks reccomends botany bay as a suitable place for a penal colony
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Here come the squatters! Governors have drawn lines on the map of the colonies to delineate the limits of settlement.
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the first major gold strikes, with gold found near bathurst in nsw, then in victoria near what would become ballarat.
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gold miners at ballarat erect a wooden stockade to protest an ill treatment.
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John Howard wins a landslide election victory and historic third term.
