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1486 | Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope. | |
1497 | Vasco da Gama sails to India via the Cape. | |
1512 | Portuguese discover the Moluccas. | |
1520 | Magellan enters the Pacific. | |
1567 | Alvarez discovers the Solomon Islands. | |
1595 | Cornelius Houtman pilots Dutch ships to the East Indies. | |
1598 | Dutch established at Java. | |
1606 | Quiros discovers the New Hebrides. | |
Discovery of Torres Strait. | ||
The DUYFKEN in the Gulf of Carpentaria. | ||
1611 | Brouwer's new route to the East. | |
1616 | Dirk Hartog on the Western Australian coast. | |
1622 | English ship TRIAL wrecked off the west coast. | |
1627 | Nuytsland discovered. | |
1636 | Van Diemen Governor of Dutch East Indies. | |
1642 | Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. | |
1644 | Tasman in the Gulf of Carpentaria. | |
1688 | Dampier in the CYGNET in Australian waters. | |
1699 | Dampier in the ROEBUCK in Shark's Bay. | |
1768 | Cook's ENDEAVOUR voyage. | |
1770 | Cook's discovery of New South Wales. | |
1772 | Cook's RESOLUTION voyage. | |
1779 | Banks suggests founding a convict settlement at Botany Bay. | |
1782 | End of the American War of Independence. | |
1783 | Matra's plan of colonization in New South Wales. | |
1785 | Sir George Young's plan. | |
1786 | Determination to found a settlement at Botany Bay. | |
1788 | Foundation of Sydney. | |
Laperouse in Botany Bay. | ||
1789 | Establishment of New South Wales Corps. | |
Settlement of Norfolk Island. | ||
1792 | End of Phillip's governorship. | |
1792-5 | Administration of Grose and Paterson. | |
1795 | Hunter Governor of New South Wales. | |
1795-6 | Bass and Flinders make voyages in the TOM THUMB. | |
1797 | John Macarthur buys merino sheep. | |
Discovery of coal. | ||
1798 | Bass discovers Bass Strait and Westernport. | |
Bass and Flinders circumnavigate Tasmania in the Norfolk. | ||
1800 | King Governor of New South Wales. | |
Voyage of the LADY NELSON from England. | ||
Flinders's voyage in the INVESTIGATOR. | ||
1802 | Murray discovers Port Phillip. | |
Flinders meets Baudin in Encounter Bay. | ||
1803 | Flinders circumnavigates Australia. | |
Wreck of the PORPOISE. | ||
Flinders imprisoned in Mauritius. | ||
Collins's Port Phillip Settlement. | ||
1804 | Foundation of Hobart. | |
Settlement at Port Dalrymple. | ||
1806 | Bligh Governor of New South Wales. | |
1807 | Arrest of John Macarthur. | |
1808 | Mutiny in New South Wales; deposition of Bligh. | |
1809 | Macquarie Governor of New South Wales. | |
1810 | Extinction of New South Wales Corps. | |
Liberation of Flinders. | ||
1813 | BlaxIand discovers a way across the Blue Mountains. | |
Evans discovers the Bathurst plains. | ||
Davey Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. | ||
1814 | Death of Flinders. | |
Establishment of Civil Court in New South Wales. | ||
1816 | Bank of New South Wales founded. | |
1817 | Oxley explores the Lachlan. | |
1818 | Oxley explores the Macquarie. | |
1819 | Commissioner Bigge in New South Wales. | |
1821 | Brisbane Governor of New South Wales. | |
1823 | New South Wales Judicature Act passed. | |
Oxley in Moreton Bay. | ||
1824 | Wentworth's AUSTRALIAN. | |
Foundation of Brisbane. | ||
1824 | Annexation of Bathurst and Melville Islands. | |
Hume and Hovell's expedition to Port Phillip. | ||
1825 | Alteration of western boundary of New South Wales. | |
Lockyer explores the Brisbane River. | ||
Arthur Governor of Van Diemen's Land. | ||
1826 | The ASTROLABE at Westernport. | |
Settlement at Westernport. | ||
Darling Governor of New South Wales. | ||
1827 | Lockyer's Settlement at King George's Sound. | |
Darling's law to regulate the press. | ||
Alan Cunningham explores the Liverpool Range and the Darling Downs. | ||
Stirling examines the Swan River. | ||
1828 | Enlargement of the Legislative Council of New South W ales. | |
Westernport Settlement abandoned. | ||
Sturt discovers the Darling. | ||
1829 | Annexation of the Swan River. | |
Whole of Australia claimed as British territory. | ||
The PARMELIA conveys first immigrants to Swan River. | ||
Publication of Wakefield's LETTER FROM SYDNEY. | ||
1830 | Accession of William IV. | |
Act establishing trial by jury in New South Wales. | ||
Sturt explores the Murray to the sea. | ||
Perth founded. | ||
Governor Arthur's 'Black Drive.' | ||
1834 | Act to establish Colony of South Australia. | |
The Hentys settle at Portland. | ||
The Dorsetshire labourers transported. | ||
1835 | John Batman in Port Phillip. | |
1836 | Mitchell explores Australia Felix. | |
Adelaide founded. | ||
Lonsdale takes charge of the Port Phillip Settlement. | ||
Bourke's grazing licences policy. | ||
1837 | Accession of Queen Victoria. | |
Melbourne named. | ||
House of Commons Committee on Transportation. | ||
1837-40 | George Grey's explorations in Western Australia. | |
1838 | Gawler Governor of South Australia. | |
Military settlement at Port Essington. | ||
1839 | Latrobe appointed superintendent of Port Phillip. | |
Strzeleeki finds traces of gold. | ||
1839 | Death of John Batman. | |
Lord Durham's report on the state of Canada. | ||
McMillan's first expedition to Gippsland. | ||
Abandonment of Moreton Bay Settlement. | ||
1840 | Order in Council discontinuing transportation to Australia. | |
Eyre starts for the centre of the continent. | ||
Strzelecki's journey through Gippsland. | ||
1841 | Grey appointed Governor of South Australia. | |
1842 | Robert Lowe in New South Wales. | |
Act for the Government of N.S.W. and Van Diemen's Land passed. | ||
1843 | Ridley invents the stripper. | |
1844 | Convicts shipped to Port Phillip. | |
Sturt's journey to the interior. | ||
Leichhardt's first exploring expedition. | ||
1845 | Grey appointed Governor of New Zealand. | |
Burra copper mine discovered. | ||
1846 | Fitzroy 'Governor-General' of Australia. | |
Lieutenant Yule hoists British flag in New Guinea. | ||
1847 | Gold found in Port Phillip. | |
The Gladstone Colony at Port Curtis. | ||
1848 | Melbourne elects Lord Grey to the Legislative Council. | |
Leichhardt's last expedition. | ||
1849 | The RANDOLPH in Hobson's Bay: resistance to convict immigration. | |
Port Essington abandoned. | ||
1850 | Western Australia becomes a penal colony. | |
University of Sydney founded. | ||
Australian Colonies Government Act passed. | ||
Railway from Sydney to Goulburn built. | ||
1851 | Separation of Victoria from New South Wales. | |
Hargreaves digs for gold on Summerhill Creek. | ||
Gold found at Ballarat. | ||
The diggings commence. | ||
1852 | University of Melbourne founded. | |
1853 | Tasmania named. | |
Town of Gladstone founded. | ||
French annexation of New Caledonia. | ||
1854 | The Eureka Stockade. | |
Hobson's Bay railway built. | ||
1855 | Transportation to Norfolk Island ceased | |
1855 | New constitutions come into effect in New South Wales, Victoria, | |
South Australia, and Tasmania. | ||
Ballot Act passed in Victoria. | ||
First anti-Chinese legislation passed. | ||
1858 | Torrens Real Property Act passed. | |
1859 | Colony of Queensland proclaimed. | |
Kingsley's GEOFFREY HAMLYN published. | ||
1860 | McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. | |
1861 | Burke and Wills expedition. | |
Cowper's quarrel with the New South Wales Legislative Council. | ||
1862 | McDouall Stuart crosses the continent to Port Darwin | |
Duffy's Land Act. | ||
1863 | South Australia undertakes to administer the Northern Territory. | |
New Caledonia a convict colony. | ||
1865 | McCuIloch proposes protection in Victoria. | |
1867 | End of transportation to Western Australia. | |
Gold discovered at Gympie. | ||
The Darling grant controversy. | ||
1868 | First Queensland Act to regulate Kanaka labour | |
1869 | John Forrest's journey in search of Leichhardt. | |
1870 | British troops withdrawn from Australia. | |
Adam Lindsay Gordon died. | ||
1872 | Overland telegraph line from Adelaide to Port Darwin constructed. | |
1873 | John Forrest explores the interior. | |
Moresby's discoveries in New Guinea. | ||
Stephens's 'free, compulsory, and secular' Education Act. | ||
1874 | University of Adelaide founded. | |
John Forrest's journey from Perth to Adelaide. | ||
Fiji annexed by Great Britain. | ||
Clarke's FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE published. | ||
1875 | Ernest Giles's inland journey. | |
1877 | Dispute as to payment of members in Victoria. | |
High Commissionership of the Pacific established. | ||
Brunton Stephens's poem, THE DOMINION OF AUSTRALIA, published. | ||
1878 | Black Wednesday' (January 8). | |
1879 | First Australian Trade Union Congress. | |
1880 | Capture of the Kelly Gang. | |
1880 | Payment of members carried in Victoria. | |
1881 | Reform of the Victorian Legislative Council. | |
1882 | Discovery of Mount Morgan. | |
The Kimberley gold rush. | ||
Henry Clarence Kendall died. | ||
1883 | Silver discovered at Broken Hill. | |
McIlwraith annexes New Guinea. | ||
1884 | German annexation of Kaiser Wilhelm's Land, the Bismarck | |
Archipelago, and Samoa. | ||
1885 | Federal Council established. | |
Soudan contingent from New South Wales. | ||
1887 | Anglo-French Condominium in the New Hebrides. | |
First Colonial Conference. | ||
1888 | Intercolonial Conference on Chinese immigration. | |
ROBBERY UNDER ARMS published. | ||
1890 | Great maritime strike. | |
University of Tasmania founded. | ||
1891 | First Federal Convention. | |
1892 | Coolgardie gold-field discovered. | |
1893 | Corowa Conference on Federation. | |
1894 | Women's enfranchisement in South Australia. | |
1895 | Victorian Wages Board system established. | |
Paterson's THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER published. | ||
1896 | Henry Lawson's IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE published. | |
1897 | The second Colonial Conference. | |
1897-8 | The Federal Convention. | |
1898 | First Federal Referendum. | |
1899 | Second Federal Referendum. | |
First Labour Government (Queensland). | ||
Australian contingents sent to South African War. | ||
1900 | The Commonwealth Constitution before the Imperial Parliament. | |
1901 | (May 9) First Commonwealth Parliament opened. | |
1902 | Immigration Restriction Act passed. | |
Third Colonial Conference. | ||
1903 | First Deakin Government. | |
Amended Naval Agreement. | ||
1904 | The Watson Government. | |
Reid-McLean Government. | ||
Dalgety selected as site for federal capital. | ||
1905 | Second Deakin Government. | |
1906 | Amended Anglo-French agreement as to New Hebrides. | |
1907 | Act for construction of Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta railway passed. | |
Imperial Conference. | ||
1908 | First Fisher Government. | |
Revocation of choice of Dalgety. Canberra finally selected as site of federal capital. | ||
1909 | Third Deakin Government. | |
Imperial Defence Conference. | ||
Compulsory military service instituted in Australia. | ||
Lord Kitchener's report. | ||
1910 | University of Brisbane founded. | |
Second Fisher Government. | ||
1911 | Referendum for amendment of constitution. | |
Admiral Henderson's naval report. | ||
Imperial Conference. | ||
1912 | University of Perth founded. | |
1913 | Cook Government. | |
Referendum for amendment of constitution. | ||
The AUSTRALIA completed. | ||
1914 | Third Fisher Government. | |
Great European War. | ||
Fight between the SYDNEY and EMDEN at Cocos (November). | ||
1915 | Hughes Government. | |
Anzac. | ||
1916 | First Conscription Referendum. | |
1917 | Second Conscription Referendum. | |
Transcontinental Railway opened. | ||
1918 | Great battle on the Somme (August 8); capture of Mont St. Quentin by Australian forces. | |
Defeat and surrender of Germany. | ||
1919 | Ross and Keith Smith fly from England to Australia by aeroplane. | |
1920 | Visit of the Prince of Wales to Australia. | |
1923 | End of Hughes Government. | |
Stanley Bruce Prime Minister. | ||
1924 | Visit of Special Service squadron of the Royal Navy to Australia. | |
1927 | Federal Parliament opened by Duke of York at the Commonwealth capital, Canberra. | |
1928 | Flight by Bert Hinkler from England to Australia, and by Kingsford | |
Smith and Ulm from America to Australia and from Australia to New Zealand. | ||
1929 | J. Scullin Prime Minister. | |
1930 | First Australian-born Governor-General appointed: Sir Isaac Isaacs. | |
1931 | Statute of Westminster. | |
1932 | Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge. | |
J. A. Lyons Prime Minister. | ||
Imperial Conference at Ottawa. | ||
1934 | Victorian Centenary celebrations attended by the Duke of Gloucester. | |
1935 | Italy attacks Abyssinia. | |
Jubilee of King George V. | ||
1936 | Death of King George V | |
accession and later abdication of King Edward VIII | ||
accession of the Duke of York as King George VI. | ||
1938 | The 'Munich Crisis.' | |
1939 | Death of J. A. Lyons; R. G. Menzies becomes Prime Minister. | |
Second World War begins. | ||
1940 | Australian forces share in North African campaigns. | |
1941 | Tobruk. | |
A. W. Fadden Prime Minister, August-October. | ||
John Curtin Prime Minister. | ||
1942 | Darwin bombed and Rabaul captured by Japanese | |
Battle of El Alamein. | ||
1943 | Italy defeated and Mussolini overthrown. | |
1944 | Invasion of Europe and Battle of Normandy. | |
Defeat of Referendum on increased powers for Commonwealth. | ||
General MacArthur lands in the Philippines. | ||
1945 | Defeat of Germany (May). | |
United Nations' Charter signed. | ||