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The First Fleet
Captain Arthur Phillip of the First Fleet, decided to sail to the rest of the fleet to work on the new settlement. -
First australian sailed to Europe
Governor Philip returned to England, accompanied by Bennelong, who became the first Australian-born person to sail to Europe. -
The Rum Rebellion
The Rum Rebellion is when William Bligh was overthrown by the NSW corps in 1808. -
The Crossing of the Blue Mountains
1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains was the expedition led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, which became the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales by European settlers.Date: 11 May 1813 – 6 June 1813 -
First bank opened
Australia's first bank which was called the Bank of New South Wales, opened in Macquarie Place, Sydney 1817. The bank became Westpac in 1982. -
Changing the name of New Holland
Governor Lachlan Macquarie presented the British the senior commander of a fleet to use the name "Australia" instead of "New Holland" -
They were allowed to change the name of New Holland
Permission was granted to change the name of the continent from New Holland to Australia. -
Australia was claimed British Territory!
The whole of Australia was claimed as British territory ! When Major Edmund Lockyer formally announced it. -
Perth was found
the settlement of perth was founded by Captain James stirling on the 12th of June, 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. -
HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin Harbour
HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin Harbour during its surveying of the area. John Clements Wickham named the area Port Darwin in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin. The settlement became the town of Palmerston in 1869 and was renamed Darwin in 1911. -
Western Australia is named
Swan River Colony had its name changed to Western Australia by captain James Stirling in 1832 -
First political party
William Wentworth established Australian Patriotic Association which is Australia's first political party, to demand democracy for New South Wales. -
John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner established a settlement
John Batman, the founder of Victoria. The place Batman chose for the settlement was around the Port Melbourne area, on the opposite side of the Yarra to where Melbourne city is today. -
NSW was and New Zealand separate colony
New Zealand was proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. -
The ship Cataraqui was wrecked off King Island
The ship Cataraqui was wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost. -
first university
Australia's first university called the University of Sydney, was founded. -
Gold rush
During the Australian gold rushes, a large numbers of workers which were both from other areas within Australia and from overseas relocated to areas in which gold had been discovered. A number of people had found gold, but only the gold found from 1851 onwards created gold rushes. This is mainly because, before 1851, the colonial government of New South Wales had defeated news of gold finds which it believed would lower the workforce and destabilise the economy. -
Victoria was separated from New South Wales
Victoria was separated from New South Wales in 1851. Port Phillip District from New South Wales, and named the new colony "Victoria",after Queen Victoria.She signed it on 5 August 1850. The council named the new colony Victoria on 1st of July 1851. -
The Eureka stockade
The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who overthrew against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. The Battle of the Eureka Stockade, which was fought between miners and the colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure built by miners during the conflict. -
The Eureka stockade
The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. The Battle of the Eureka Stockade, which was fought between miners and the colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure built by miners during the conflict. -
South Australian men were allowed to vote
All men over 21 years of age obtained the right to vote in South Australia. -
Melbourne railway
The line opened on 26 September 1855. Victoria: The first railway line in Australia opened between Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and Port Melbourne, then called Sandridge, on 12 September 1854. ... The first Government railway opened in 1879 between Geraldton and Northampton. -
Tasmania was named
Tasmania used to be called Van Diemen's Land but they changed it Tasmania. -
Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded
Statue of Tom Wills umpiring a football match in 1858, believed to be one of the defining moments in the history of Australian rules football.
A game at the Richmond Paddock in the 1860s
Essendon, first VFL premiers in 1897. -
the Burke and Wills expedition occured.
The Burke and Wills expedition was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria in Australia in 1860–1861, It was led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, with the goal of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres At that time most of the inland of Australia had not been explored by non-Indigenous people and was largely unknown to the European settlers. -
South Australia took control of the Northern Territory
Northern Territory is an area of approximately 1,349 million square kilometres Its eastern, western and southern borders are fixed by latitudes and longitudes shared with the States of Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia respectively, while the northern border joins the Arafura Sea. The Territory was originally part of New South Wales until ceded to South Australia in 1863, and then to the Commonwealth in 1911. -
Saint Mary MacKillop founded Sisters of St Joseph
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, were called the "Josephites" or "Brown Joeys", were founded in Penola, South Australia, in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and Julian Tenison Woods. -
Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families
Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. This practice lasted 100 years and is known as the Stolen Generation. -
Parliamentarians in Victoria became the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Parliamentarians in Victoria became the first in Australia to be paid for their work. -
The bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged.
After trying to derail a police train, Kelly, wearing a home- made suit of armour, is captured after shootout at Glenrowan in Victoria. Kelly is seriously wounded. All other members of the gang are killed. 11 November, 1880 - Ned Kelly is hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol and buried in a mass grave there. -
Silver at Broken Hill
Broken Hill was founded in 1883 by Charles Rasp, who patrolled the Mount Gipps fences. In 1883 he discovered what he thought was tin, but the samples proved to be silver and lead. The orebody they came from proved to be the largest and richest of its kind in the world.
