Australia timeline

  • Dutch entering Australia

    Dutch entering Australia
    The Dutch entered Australia on January 28th in 1606. The Dutch did not settle in Australia. In the Dutch's first landing they were attacked by the Aborigines that lived on the land.
  • Period: to

    Australian colonization

    Colonization of Australia took far to long to occour. It took a total of 380 years for everything to be complete.
  • Naming Australia

    Naming Australia
    In 1770, captain James Cook. Sailed around Australia. He also named it New South Australia. Then he claimed the land for England, after he ignored the Aborigines. Finally, sailors mapped Eastern Australia.
  • set sail

    set sail
    Some British ships left England to establish a prision colony.
  • New South Wales

    New South Wales
    From 1788 through 1832 New South Wales was officially a prision consisting mainly of convicts guards and the guards families. Until 1868 british transported prisioners to Australia.
  • Settling in Australia

    Settling in Australia
    The british settled in Australia in 1788
  • prisioner transportation

    prisioner transportation
    until 1868 British transported prisoners to Australia.
  • commonwealth

    commonwealth
    In 1901 the Common Wealth of Australia was formed.
  • aborigine farmers fight back

    aborigine farmers fight back
    Aborigine farmers demanded to have equal wages as the people who stole their land.
  • helping the aborigines

    helping the aborigines
    The government started to help the Aborigines.
  • Australia Act

    Australia Act
    The Australia Act was made in 1986. Which was when all of the legal ties of the British Empire were served.