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The First Fleet
Captain Arthur Phillip and other convicts at Sydney Cove on 18-20 of January 1788. Captain Phillip gave clear instructions to establish the first British colony in Australia known as New Holland at the time. Phillip founded the penal settlement of New South Wales and they had been given authority to do it. -
Transportation and Communication
Transport and communication developments increased in the 1800s. This was a problem for both of the most populest colonies Victoria and New South Wales which took different economic paths. -
Van Diemans Land
Van Diemans Land was established as a British colony in 1803, it was part of New South Wales until 1825 when it became a seperate colony -
Tasmania Becoming a Seperate colony
Tasmania separated from NSW to become a second colony of Australia. MONTH OF THE DATE IS UNKNOWN -
Border of Nsw
The border of New South Wales had been moved west with Western Australia covering the remainder of the continent -
The Swan River Colony
Was planned to be a colony of free settlers. -
New Colony
The centre of the New Colony in Melbourne had been founded by John Batman in 1835 -
Adelaide
Adelaide had now become the centre of the new colony! -
Western Australia
In 1849 Western Australia became a penal colony -
Seperation
The southern part of New South Wales broke away to become the seperate colony of Victoria -
Colonies owned their own parliament
By 1859 all of the other colonies had their own parliment -
American Civil War
The British people sent their convicts over to America because their jails were full. America soon didn't approve of that and they declared war against Britian, and America won. Britian then found Australia to dump their convicts in. -
Colonial Borders
The Colonial borders had been finalised and now Australia had been home to six different colonies. The Northern Territory was part of NSW from 1925-1863 and SA from 1863-1911.
