Migration of people 1750-1918

By RyanLange

  • Captain Cook lands in Botany Bay

    Captain James cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and navigator

  • The First Fleet

    Between 1778 and 1850, 806 ships of convicts were shipped to Australia from England.

  • First European penal colony in N.S.W

  • Norfolk Island Settlement Founded

  • Matthew Flinders navigates around the coast Australia

    Matthew Flinders was a navigator that sailed around the coast of Australia and was the first of many navigators to map the “unknown land”.

  • Risdon Cove settlement founded

  • Port Arthur founded

  • Adelaide Established

    Adelaide, the capital of SA was founded on the 28th of December 1836. It was found by a group of people that found a gumtree.

  • The Australian Gold Rush

  • Last convicts to Australia

    The last convicts that legally travelled to australia .

  • Stolen Generation

    In 1869 the Children of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander descents were taken away from their parents by state government or agencies

  • Ayers Rock Discovered

  • Ned Kelly hanged

    ned kelly was hung on this date

  • Immigration Act made

  • Immigration act passed

  • High Court of Australia first seated

  • Tasmania's last full blooded aboringial dies

    Fanny Cochrane Smith died on this day

  • Australia sends Women to the Olympics for the first time

  • WW1 starts

    The first world world between Nazi and the United Nation.

  • WW1 ENDS