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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Basic timeline of Australia

This post is a basic timeline of Australia. There are 15 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Aboriginal Australians arrive (65,000 - 50,000 years ago)
• Torres Strait Islanders arrive (2,500 years ago)
• Willem Janszoon and Netherlands arrive (1606)
• Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania (1642)
• British First Fleet arrive (1788)
• Australian frontier wars (1788-1934)
• British Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)
• British South Australian Company (1835-1949)
• Australian gold rushes (1851-1914)
• Constitution of Australia (1900)
• Britain recognizes Australian independence (1926)
• Sydney-Kormoran battle (1941)
• New Guinea campaign (1942-1945)
• Battle of Buna-Gona (1942-1943)
• Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1976)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Australia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Australia.)