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Captain James Cook charts the east coast in his ship. Cook claims Australia as British possession and names eastern Australia "New South Wales".
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British Navy captain Arthur Phillip founds a penal settlement in Sydney. He arrives with 11 other ships carrying around 800 convicts.
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Gold was found in several locations around Australia. People flooded to Australia strike it rich, tripling the population in just 10 years passing the million mark.
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People flood into Australia to find gold, but destroying the natives land in the process. Pushing them out of there land and spreading devastating disease, the native population rapidly falls.
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Australia becomes its own country, while still symbolically being represented by the British queen.
