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1769 |
Captain James Cook reached Tahiti on 3 June |
1770 |
Captain James Cook discovers New South Wales and takes possession of the Australian land in the name of Great Britain |
1771 |
Captain James Cook returns to England |
1772 |
13 July: Captain James Cook embarks on the voyage of discovery in the Resolution |
1776 |
12 July: Captain James Cook with the ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery look for the Northwest passage but bad weather drives him back to Hawaii |
1779 |
14 February: Captain Cook is killed by natives |
1779 |
Banks suggests founding a convict settlement at Botany Bay. |
1783 |
Plans for the colonization in New South Wales are made in the UK |
1788 |
Foundation of Sydney. |
1795 |
1795-1796: George Bass and Matthew Flinders make voyages in the Tom Thumb |
1798 |
George Bass discovers the Bass Strait and Westernport. |
1803 |
Matthew Flinders circumnavigates Australia. |
1804 |
Foundation of Hobart |
1806 |
Bligh made Governor of New South Wales |
1808 |
Mutiny in New South Wales leading to the deposition of Bligh. |
1824 |
Foundation of Brisbane |
1829 |
Australia claimed as British territory |
1836 |
Foundation of Adelaide |
1837 |
Accession of Queen Victoria |
1837 |
1837-1840: George Grey explores Western Australia |
1841 |
George Grey appointed Governor of South Australia |
1847 |
Gold found in Port Phillip |
1850 |
Western Australia becomes a penal colony |
1867 |
End of transportation to Western Australia |
1870 |
British troops withdrawn from Australia |
1880 |
Capture of the Ned Kelly Gang |
1882 |
The Kimberley gold rush and Silver discovered at Broken Hill |
1892 |
Coolgardie gold-field discovered |
1899 |
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War |
1902 |
Immigration Restriction Act passed |
1914 |
1914 - 1918 World War I |
1915 |
Anzac |
1918 |
August 8: Battle on the Somme the capture of Mont St. Quentin by Australian forces. |
1918 |
End of WW1 |
1919 |
Ross and Keith Smith fly from England to Australia by aeroplane |
1939 |
1939 - 1945 1939-1945 World War 2 |
1941 |
Tobruk |
1942 |
Darwin bombed |
1945 |
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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