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Australia Timeline[edit | edit source]

Dates Events
28th April 1770 Captain James Cook, landed on the east coast of Australia and took possession on behalf of Great Britian.
26th January 1788 Establishment of the 1st colony in Sydney, after the arrival of "The First Fleet" made up of 11 ships and loaded with 1500 convicts and soldiers accompanied by their families.
1797 Merino sheep are first brought from Spain to New South Wales.
1802-1803 Matthew Flinders first circumnavigates the Australian continent.
1804 Beginning of the colonisation of Tasmania.

Matthew Flinders first uses the name "Australia" on a map to describe the continent previously known as "New Holland".

1813 George Baxland, William Wentworth, and William Lawson manage to make their way through the Blue Mountains and lead the way to exploration of the inland.
1829 Swan River colony founded on what later is Perth and the colony of Western Australia.
1834-1836 Establishment of the colony of South Australia
1835 Founding of Melbourne by John Batman.
1851 Creation of the colony of Victoria.

Beginning of the gold rush after the discovery of gold in New South Wales and Victoria.

1859 Creation of the colony of Queensland.
1862 John Stuart succeeds in the 1st crossing of the continent from south to north.
1872 The telegraph line connecting Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs is completed.
1873 Discovery of the site of Uluru (Ayers Rock).
1876 Death of the last full-blooded native of Tasmania, Truganini.
1890 Discovery of gold in Western Australia.
January 1, 1901 The 6 colonies founded are federated into a single nation: the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia. Each colony becomes a state in the commonwealth.
1914-1918 World War 1. More than 300,000 volunteer soldiers are sent to the other side of the world to fight in France and the Middle East.
1920 Creation of Qantas, Australia's national airline. QANTAS = Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service.
1923 Creation of Vegemite (a salty spread, similar to marmite from the UK. An acquired taste for non-Australians).
1929 The Great Depression starts.
1932 Opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
1939-1945 Australia takes part in World War Two and one of the first countries to declare war on Nazi Germany.
1942 Darwin bombed by the Japanese. Sydney attacked by Japanese submarines. Australia threatened by Japanese forces to the north.
1948 Manufacture of the Holden. 1st car entirely made in Australia.
1956 Olympic Games held in Melbourne.

First public television in Australia.

1967 A referendum overwhelmingly grants citizenship status to Aboriginal people.
1971 Neville Bonner becomes the 1st Aboriginal MP.
1973 Opening of the Sydney Opera House.
1975 First colour television public broadcast in Australia.

Gough Whitlam sacked as prime minister.

Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin on Christmas Day.

1976 Advance Australia Fair becomes the Australian national anthem.
1981 Increases in Asian immigration.
1986 The Australia Act severed legal ties with Great Britain.
1992-1993 The Mabo Ruling recognizes the land title of Aboriginal people from before English colonisation.
1997 Publication of the Bringing Them Home report. The state governments apologize to the aboriginal populations in particular on the subject of "stolen generations". The Howard government refuses a formal apology.
2000 Sydney hosts the Olympic Games.
13-Feb-08 The government of Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal peoples on behalf of the federal government.
24-June-10 Australia appoints for the first time in its history a woman as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Labor Party.
sept-12 Illegal immigrants (called the “boat people”) arrive en masse in Australia, which signs agreements with Nauru and Papua New Guinea to send these asylum seekers to camps located on these islands.
june-13 Kevin Rudd resumes his post as Prime Minister and ousts Julia Gillard.
07-sept-13 The Liberal Party wins the legislative elections and Tony Abbott becomes the new Prime Minister.
14-sept-15 Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces a vote of no confidence organized by his party (Liberal) and loses to Malcolm Turnbull who becomes the new Prime Minister of the country.

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