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Aug 15, 1271
Marco Polo Describes Australia!
Marco Polo who was a merchant from Venice, described Australia as the Great South Land, he reported that he had heard stories of the rich, Great South Land. -
Period: May 22, 1300 to
Australian colinization
The timespan of the discovery and colinazation of Australia -
Jun 21, 1400
There is evidence that the Chinese sailed to Australia.
There is evidence that the Chinese sailed to Australia, but they did not think is was worth colinizing because they did not colinize it and passed Australia by... -
Feb 15, 1522
The Portugese visit Australia!
The Portugse visited Australia, a portugese ship sunk on the way trying to stop the Spanish from discovring the great South AKA Australia. -
The first recorded arrival of European people
The first recored arrival of any European settlers even though they didnt colinize Australia yet. And they just passed Australia by... -
William Dampier sighted off of Australia
William Dampier was said to have been sighted of of Australia, he ended up getting shipwrecked in the Australian seas, some of his crew died in the shipwreck it is also knowen as the first European shipwreck in Australian seas. -
The French Arrive!
The French arrived in Australia just seven days after the Englsh they arrived in Botany Bay, that is why there is a street in New South Wales that is named La Perouse. -
Australia coinized by captin Cook
Australia was colinized by Captin Cook in the year 1770 which was the first time Europeans Came up the west side of Australia. Only 48 convicts died on the voyage to 'Australia' Captain Cook would have been happy that he had founded Australia. -
King George The Third names eastern Australia New South Wales
King George the third was in power at that time and he decided to name The eastern part of Australia New South Wales. -
The First Fleet arrives!
The First Fleet was a ship of convicts, it arrived in Botney Bay in Australia on, the 18th of January, 1788, but it left to go to Australia on the 13th of May, 1787. They really did go through hardship at this paticular time because food was very scarce. -
The Second Fleet Arivves!
The second Fleet has arrived, 278 Convicts died on the voyage to Australia. It became knowen as 'The death Ship' because so many convicts died on the way to Australia compared to The First Fleet. -
The Third Fleet Arrives
The first ship from the Third fleet arrives in Australia in the year 1791 on the 9th of July, they arrived at Sydney Cove. Although the Third Fleet was made up of 11 ships. -
Free setlers arrive in New South Wales!
Before this New south Wales was mainly a penal colony but around this time period, free setlers started to arrive in New South Wales. -
Victoria becomes a seprate colony from Australia!
Victoria becomes it's own colony on July 1st 1851, after this The Gold Rush began in Victoria, people started after this people became eager to find gold that is when the Gold Rush began. -
The Gold Rush comes to an end!
The Gold rush stopped around about the 1890s, but before this gold was mined at an industriual scale. -
Federation day
Australia became an independent nation in the year 1901, which is also New Years Day. At the time Australias head of state was the Queen Of England. People would have felt good during this time because Australia had finnaly become compleatly free. -
The Australian capital is established
The planning of the captal of Australia is planned to be built, the parliment of Australia moved there in 1927. It officialy became the Australian capital in 1938. -
Australia went to WW1 as a country
Australian soldiers go to WW1 as a country working with a couple of other countries, they were knowen as The Allies. Some of countries thta went to war with Australia were America and England. People in Australia would have been pretty desprete during this time. -
WW2 has begun!
WW2 has begun, and australia got involved and went to Gallipoli and the battle of the Somme, it was a hard time for everyone, aborigines also fought in World War 2 as soldiers for Australia. -
Australia Now!
Australia is currently a 1st world country that is safe to live in and has some remnents of history of colinization eg Captin Cooks Cottage. Australia is also going very well with money and exporting coal.
