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Captain Cook was born
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Governor Philip was born
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Captain Cook found Australia
In 1770 Captain Cook found the south east coast of Australia landing in Botany Bay, on the 29 of April 1770 Sunday afternoon. -
Captain Cook claims Australia for England
On the 22 of August 1770 Captain Cook took ownership on the east coast of Australia at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia New South Wales. -
Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii
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Deciding on coming to Australia
Reasons why to come! Economic reasons why to come are re was not many jobs to offer, lot's of new jobs to offer in Australia, wanted a colony near Asia for trading reasons and people were very poor back then. -
Deciding on coming to Australia
Political reasons are their were to many convicts in England so they needed to send them to Australia, Britten wanted power and influence over Asia and helped people who have or don't have a job continue or start. -
Deciding on coming to Australia
Social reasons are because In 1837, Britain was still a rural nation with 80% off the population living in the countryside, Australia was safer, cleaner and the soil is better, free settlers came because Governor Phillip promised free land, food and clothing for them to come and start colony with him and there was lot's of crime in Britten. -
The first 11 ships set off for Botany Bay.
on the 13 may, a fleet of 11 ships set off on a trip to Botany Bay. -
The first fleet arrived at Botany Bay
On the 18th of January 1788, the first fleet witch was 11 ships reached Botany Bay. There were 1, 530 people all up on the boats. 136 of them were convicts and the rest free settlers. -
Bennelong got captured.
Governor Philips men captured Bennelong and kept him in shackles in the settlement for the first few months. Bennelong was finally let go but chose to stay to teach Governor Philip the language that the Wangal people spoke. -
The Gold Rush!
The discovery that changed a nation In 1851, Edward Hargraves found gold near Bathurst NSW.
This discovery made Edward Lot's of money and started the Australian gold rush. The Australian gold rush was very much like the great gold rush of San Francisco.
