Let's Make A Date

By lollio

  • 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