Timeline: Making A Nation | Timetoast

Apr 29, 1770

James Cook landed in Botany Bay
1788

First Settlement in NSW on Sydney Cove
1803

First Settlement in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1813

First Crossing of the Blue Mountains (NSW) leads to British Expansion
1824

Moreton Bay (QLD) Convict Settlement
1829

(WA) Swan River Colony
1835

(VIC) Settlement of Port Phillip Colony and the foundation of Melbourne
1836

(SA) Settlement of Adelaide
1838

Myall Creek Massacre (NSW)
1851

Start of the Australian Gold Rush