Making Of A Nation

By emmaleyvraz

  • Cook's discovery of NSW

    Captain James Cook claimed the whole east coast of Australia for Britain naming it NSW.

  • Foundation Of Sydney

    Sydney began with the arrival of The First Fleet of the British ships.

  • NSW Founded

    The European discovery of New South Wales was made by Captain James Cook during his 1770 survey along the unmapped eastern coast of the Dutch-named continent of New Holland, now Australia.

  • The First Fleet

    In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip, 751 convicts and their children, along with 252 marines and their families, arrived at Port Jackson on The First Fleet

  • Matthew Flinders Imprisoned In Mauritius

    In 1803 he sailed for England but his ship was wrecked at an uncharted reef and he returned to Australia in the ship's cutter. On his homeward journey, Flinders was imprisoned by the French for almost seven years in Mauritius as a spy. When he was released in 1810, he returned to England and wrote a book A Voyage to Terras Australis which was published in 1814. On the same day it was published, he died.

  • Crossing The Blue Mountains

    They crossed the Blue Mountains on the 29th of May. When people arrived to sydney they thought that the Blue Mountains were impenetrable and would stop future developement.

  • Gold Was Discovered In Australia

    Gold was first discoverd in Australia by assistant surveyor James McBrien at Fish River.

  • The Whole Of Australia Was Claimed British Territory

    In 1770 Captain James Cook of England claimed the East coast of Australia for British Crown but it wasn't until 1829 that all of Australia was claimed as British territory.

  • South Australia Was Founded

    Aboriginal Australians have lived in South Australia for tens of thousands of years, while British colonists arrived in the 19th century to establish a free colony.

  • Copper Was Discovered At Kapunda in S.A.

    Kapunda is a town on the Light River and near the Barossa Valley in South Australia. It was established after a discovery in 1842 of significant copper deposits.

  • The Gold Rush Begins Near Bathurst In NSW

    The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed the discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, New South Wales at a site he called Ophir.

  • Ayers Rock Is First Sited By Europeans

    Uluru was first named ‘Ayers Rock’ by Ernest Giles, a European explorer who first sighted the rock in 1873.

  • The Australian Labour Party Founded

    It was formed in the 1890s and was represented in the first Federal Parliament elected in 1901.

  • Woman Can Vote

    Women gained the right to vote in South Australia, on the eighth attempt, when the Constitution Amendment Act was passed on the 18 December 1894.

  • W.A. Finally Accepts Federation

    In 1860 there were six British colonies in Australia. The main laws of the colonies were made by the British Parliament. At first the colonies had little to do with each other. But in 1872 telegraph linked the colonies, and the idea of being 'Australian' began to be celebrated in songs and poems, and by the 1890s the idea of federation was becoming popular.

  • Federation

    The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation. They kept the systems of government that they had developed as separate colonies but also would have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation.

  • Australia's First Prime Minister

    Edmund Barton was Australia's first prime minister. He was replaced by Alfred Deakin on the 24th of September, 1903.

  • Australian Troops Fight In World War 1

    The First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war in August 1914, and Prime Minister Andrew Fisher's government pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places, with great enthusiasm.

  • The First Federal Parliament Is Held In Canberra

    The Parliament House is a meeting facility of the Parliament of Australia located in Canberra. The building was designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Architects and opened on 9 May 1988 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. Costing more than $1.1 billion, it was the most expensive building in the world at the time of its construction.