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1st European to land on the coast of New Holland (Cape York Peninsula)
Key People Willem Janszoon -
1st European to leave an artefact on Australian soil
Key People Dirk Hartog -
Discovery/mapping of parts of Van Dieman's Land & New Zealand
Key People Abel Tasman -
First British Person to land on west coast of New Holland
Key People William Dampier -
1st European to discover eastern coast of New Holland (New South Wales)
Key People Captain James Cook -
First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay
Key People Captain Arthur Phillip -
Meeting of English and French explorers at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Key People Matthew Flinders & Nicolas Baudin -
Complete Circumnavigation of continent of Australia
Key People Matthew Flinders -
1st settlement in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania)
Key People David Collins -
The rum rebelion
Key People John Macarthur -
Way across Blue Mountains (NSW) discovered
Key People Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson -
Mapping of inland rivers begins (NSW)
Key People John Oxley -
Penal colony established at Moreton Bay (now Brisbane)
Key People N/A -
Settlement of Perth
Key People N/A -
Charting of the Murray River
Key People Captain Charles Sturt -
Port Phillip bay settlement (Melbourne)
Key People John Batman/ John Fawkner -
Planned Coloney of Adelaide
Key People Edward Gibbon Wakefeild -
Gold discovered near Bathurst (NSW)
Key People Edward Hargraves -
Gold rush starts in Ballarat
Key People N/A -
Eureka Stockade
Key People Peter Lalor -
End of convict transportation
Key People N/A -
Australia becomes a Federation
Key People Sir Henry Parkes