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Captain Arthur Phillip and other convicts at Sydney Cove on 18-20 of January 1788. Captain Phillip gave clear instructions to establish the first British colony in Australia known as New Holland at the time. Phillip founded the penal settlement of New South Wales and they had been given authority to do it.
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Transport and communication developments increased in the 1800s. This was a problem for both of the most populest colonies Victoria and New South Wales which took different economic paths.
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Van Diemans Land was established as a British colony in 1803, it was part of New South Wales until 1825 when it became a seperate colony
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Tasmania separated from NSW to become a second colony of Australia. MONTH OF THE DATE IS UNKNOWN
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The border of New South Wales had been moved west with Western Australia covering the remainder of the continent
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Was planned to be a colony of free settlers.
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The centre of the New Colony in Melbourne had been founded by John Batman in 1835
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Adelaide had now become the centre of the new colony!
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In 1849 Western Australia became a penal colony
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The southern part of New South Wales broke away to become the seperate colony of Victoria
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By 1859 all of the other colonies had their own parliment
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The British people sent their convicts over to America because their jails were full. America soon didn't approve of that and they declared war against Britian, and America won. Britian then found Australia to dump their convicts in.
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The Colonial borders had been finalised and now Australia had been home to six different colonies. The Northern Territory was part of NSW from 1925-1863 and SA from 1863-1911.
