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Portuguese sailors explore some of the northern and southern coast.
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A Spaniard,de Quiros,calls Vanuatu 'La Australia del Spiritu Santo'
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French sailors reach and describe the Great Barrier Reef.
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Captain Cook arrives at Botany Bay.
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The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove. The first Anglican service is held on 3rd of February,1788. The French Catholic chaplin, Pere Receveur, possibly said Mass about the same time. He died there and is buried at La Perouse.
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Smallpox kills half of the Aborigines in the Sydney area
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Fathers Harold,O'Neil and Dixon, the first convict priests arrive.
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The first public Mass is offered by Father Dixon
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Fathers Harold,O'Neil and Dixon sent back to England
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Father Jeremiah O'Flynn arrived from England without permission
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Fathers Therry and Connolly the first offical priests arrive
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Father Connolly goes to Tasmania and builds the first Catholic Chrich in Australia
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European settlement in Western Australia the Swan River Colony
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End of the English penal laws against Catholics
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JH Plunkett becomes solicitor general and Roger Therry a judge.
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Father Ullathorne arrives in Sydney
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The Henty Brothers begin a settlement in Victoria
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John Bede Polding becomes Australia's first Catholic bishop
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Ullathrone celebrates the first mass in South Australia
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Sisters of Charity come to Sydney and begin Australia's first non-military hospital.
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James Scullin is elected Prime Minister.
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The Great Depression and the start of Catholic Action.
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Father PJ Moloney begins the Palm Island and Fantome Island mission.
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Eucharistic Congress in Melbourne
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Fathers PJ Moloney and Frank McGarry begin a school for Aborigines at Alice Springs
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The Grail begins in Australia
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Second World War
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The beginning of "The Movement"
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Dr Woodbury begins the Aquinas Academy in Sydney
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Post-war migration from Europe begins
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The bishops'letter' makes all migrants feel at home
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Father Peyton: 'The family that prays together stays together'
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The Week of Prayer for Christians begins
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The Labor Party split
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Many new Catholic schools
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Ukrainian bishop in Australia
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Publication of "The Living Parish Hymn Book".
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The Second Vatican Council commences. The Goulburn School Strike
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Pope John XXIII dies and Paul VI is elected
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Government money is given for Australian Catholic schools
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Project Compassion is started
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Pope Paul VI writes Populorum Progessio ('The progress of peoples').
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The Pope writes Humanae Vitae('Of human life').
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Paul VI becomes the first pope to ever visit Australia.
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Neville Bonner becomes the first Aboriginal member of parliament.
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Action for World Development
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First Maronite bishop in Australia.
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Marriage Encounter spreads to Australia.
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First National women's conference.First Aboriginal priest ordained.
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Rome declares that Australia is no longer a mission country.
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Outlook magazine commences
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The first Catholic lay people graduate in theology.
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Women's movement in the Catholic Church.
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Pope John II visits Australia.
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First Melkite bishop arrives
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Beatification of Mary MacKillop
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The Jubilee Year.
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World Youth Day held in Sydney.
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Mary MacKillop canonisation in Rome.