TIMELINE

By Al man

  • Captain James Cook

    • Captain Cook came to Australia in 1770• James was stern and hot tempered but very handsome• He captained a ship called the Endeavour• James was born somewhere between 1728 on 27th of October• Cook joined the Royal Navy in 1755• He was an internationally known seaman in the 18th century

  • William Bligh

    • Between 1783 and 1787 Bligh served Campbell in the West Indian trade. Then he was the appointed commander and purser of H.M.S. Bounty, a ship bought from Campbell, to lead an expedition to procure bread-fruit for the West Indies. He sailed on 28 November 1787 and reached Tahiti eleven months later. But on 29 April 1789, soon after leaving there, the crew mutinied and cast off their commander with 18 'loyalists' in an open boat only 23 feet (7 m) long.

  • First Fleet

    First Fleet
    Captain Arthur Phillip and the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay with 750 convicts on 11 boats. • The names of all of the boats are Alexander, Charlotte, Scarborough, Prince of Wales, Friendship, Lady Penrhyn, Golden Grove, Borrowdale, Fishburn, HMS Sirius and H.M.S. Supply. Captain Arthur Phillip named the place of the landing Sydney Cove after Lord Sydney, a man who helped to organise the voyage They left England on the 13th May 1787 and arrived in Botany Bay on the 26th Jan 1788

  • Second Fleet

    5 of 6 ships of the beleaguered Second Fleet arrived. The colony was gripped by a food crisis.

  • John Macarthur

     John Macarthur (1767-1834), the soldier, politician and pioneer of the Australian wool industry and Elizabeth Macarthur married on October 1788. They sailed to the new colony after John joined the New South Wales Corps in 1789. At "Elizabeth Farm" in 1794 he began his first experiments in improving wool growth by crossing hair-bearing Bengal ewes from India with Irish wool rams.  By 1801, Macarthur was the largest sheep rarer in the colony In December 1807 Bligh ordered Macarthur to appe

  • smallpox outbreak in Sydney in 1789

    In April 1789, just over fifteen months after the First Fleet the Aborigines of the Sydney region were seen to be dying in large numbers.

  • Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher

    Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters

  • The Rum Rebellion

    The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history. During the 19th century it was widely referred to as the Great Rebellion.The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in AustraliaAfterwards, the colony was ruled by the military,

  • School for Aboriginals Opens

    • Governor Macquarie opens a school for aboriginal children in Parramatta which was called the ‘Native institution’ in 1814-1815 • Myall Creek Massacre. Near Inverell (NSW), British people shoot 28 Aboriginal people, mostly women and children. 11 Europeans were charged with murder but are acquitted. A new trial is held and seven men are charged with the murder of one Aboriginal child. They are found guilty and hanged.• James Cook claims possession of the whole east coast of Australia.

  • Lord Byron's

    Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication

  • Volcano Mayon

    Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200

  • John Glover- moves to Tasmaina

    • John Glover is a famous British/Australian artist, in his earlier years he lived in London but then moved to Tasmania in 1831 with his family.• He acquired one of the largest land grants in Tasmania at that time, he named his new property Patterdale after his previous home in England.• He was inspired a lot by wandering the English moors and Europe, then painted Australian landscape when he lived in Tasmania.• William Payne also inspired him as he was his teacher.

  • william thomson

    William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months

  • Charles Darwin

    charles darwin leaves australia1836

  • Gold Rush

    Gold Rush
    The gold rush begins near Bathurst in NSW. When the gold rush began people came to Australia to find gold.The discovery of gold in the 1850s and 60s is the one most itresting avent the state of Victoria.

  • Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars

    Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills

  • Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies

    Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86

  • Nazis in Eastern Europe.

    World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe.