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Australia Timeline[edit | edit source]
Dates | Events |
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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 โboat peopleโ) 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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