Remember some of the main Australian historical facts

• Даты
  • Past - 40, 000 BC
  • New Era - 1770
  • 1788
  • Brave James - 1829
  • The Capital - 1911
  • Big arrivals - 1948
• События
  • The first Aborigines arrived from south-east Asia.
  • Captain James Cook explored and charted the east coast in his ship "HM Endeavour".
  • British Navy captain Arthur Phillip founded a penal settlement at Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales. He had arrived with a fleet of 11 vessels, carrying nearly 800 convicts.
  • Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captain James Stirling.
  • Canberra was founded and designated as the capital.
  • Australia began a scheme for immigration from Europe. Over the next 30 years, more than two million people arrived, about one-third of them from Britain, and hundreds of thousands from Italy, Greece and Germany.
  • Colony of Eastern Australia established at Adelaida by Captain James Grand.
  • Sydney was founded as the capital.
  • 23 January - Captain Arthur Phillip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove.