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Australia History Timeline


Important Australian people, dates and events
The Australian Aboriginal people
Captain James Cook's voyage of discovery
Australia claimed as British territory
The Kimberley gold rush
 

Australia History Timeline

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Australia has been inhabited for at least 50,000 years. It was first inhabited by the remote Asian ancestors of the current Australian Aboriginal people. Australia was not discovered by Europeans until the 17th century

1768

 

Captain James Cook voyage of discovery in the Endeavour

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British troops withdrawn from Australia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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