Lara significant events in Australia

Colonisation of Nsw

Jan 7, 1788

European colonisation created a new society in Australia in place of the population of Indigenous Australians.

Second fleet

1790

5 of 6 ships of the beleaguered Second Fleet arrived. The colony was gripped by a food crisi

Convicts and free settlers

Jan 27, 1793

When the Bellona transport came to anchor in Sydney Cove on 16 January 1793, she brought with her the first immigrant free settlers.