Australian Time line 1770-1901

By OSCARTHEGROUCH
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    Captain Cook 1770

    Exploring different bays and rivers along the way Captain Cook circumnavigated New Zealand and was the first to accurately chart the whole of the coastliine
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    1778 The First fleet

    Between 1778 and 1850 the English sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ship. The first of these ships are now known as the first fleet and contained convicts and marines that are now acknowledged as the founders of the Australia.
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    1803 Matthew Flinders

    Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was the fist man to circumnavigate Australia.His charts were so accurate that some people are still are in use these days
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    1829

    Western Australia: The human history of Western Australia commenced between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago with the arrival of indigenous Australians on the North coast,The first inhabitants expanded the range of their settlement to the eat and south of the continent
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    1851

    Edwards Hardgraves discovered gold in a waterhole in Bathurst in 1851. He had a suspicion that gold gold in Bathurst due to the geological similarity of Australia to the California Goldfields
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    1852 The effects of the gold rush

    Once gold was discovered thousands of people from around the world tried to attempt to find gold. The Australian population increased by about 1 million during the gold rush as it was one of the main exporters of the gold during the gold rush

  • 1854 Eureka Stockade

    Numerous events lead up to a group of miners becoming fed up with the Authority of the time. The protesters burnt there licences and demanded-a vote.8 The Eureka stockade was set up in Eureka,and from the conflict,30 miners and 5 soldiers were killed
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    1854 The Eureka Stockade

    Numerous events lead up to a group of miners becoming fed up with the Authority of the time. The protesters burnt there licences and demanded-a vote.8 The Eureka stockade was set up in Eureka,and from the conflict,30 miners and 5 soldiers were killed
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    1889 The father of federation

    Sir Henry Parkes also known as the father of federation was driving force of federation. He came up with the idea of federation and delivered speech in 1889 that ultimately swayed the colonies to take up federation Parkes died before federation came about.
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    1901 Federation

    The federation occurred in 1901,and was the joining of 6 colonies to form a nation. The Australia coat of arms consists of kangaroo,Emu symbols of the colonies and the wattle