Tasmania

The first report of Tasmania

Nov 24, 1642

Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today's Blackmans Bay

James Cook

1777

Captain James Cook landed at Adventure Bay

Tasmania is an island

1799

Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Black War

1820

Established as Van Diemen's Land

1825

Self-governing colony of the British Empire

1856

State of the Commonwealth of Australia

1901

Tasmanian fires

1967

Australia Act

1986