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Cook landed on the east coast of Australia at Botany Bay. The area reminded him of South Wales. Finally, he claims australia for the British -
11 ships left England for Australia. There were over 1300 people on board the ships, including 736 convicted criminals. The first colony was built in Sydney Cove. -
The first "free settlers" began to arrive from Britain, attracted by the idea of a new life in another part of the world. They brought the supplies and skills needed to help the settlement survive and grow. -
A new settlement was founded for convicts at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land. After that, free settlers soon follow and set up them there too. -
Australians who have come to settle represented approximately half of the population, the others were born directly on the territory. People who were born in Australia considered themselves like just Australians without any English origins. -
The discovery of gold in the 1850s started a series of rushes thet transformed the Australian colonies. The gold rushes greatly expanded Australia's population, boosted its economy,and led to the emergence of a new national identity. -
Named in honour of Queen Victoria (queen of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland) , Victoria was separated from New South Wales and established as a separate Crown colony in 1851, granted self government in 1855. Victoria's population and wealth increased by the 1850s and 1860s gold rushes. -
In 1855, Britain granted self-government to New South Wales, the new colony of Victoria, Van Diemen's Land (renamed Tasmania) and later to South Australia in 1856. They managed most of their own affairs but were still part of the British empire. -
Queen Victoria granted approval and signed Letters Patent to establish the new colony of Queensland. It was the last colony to be created. -
Over 80% of people in Australia were born there. The six colonies meet to draw up a set of rules about how to run Australia as a united country, independent of Britain -
Australia was composed of six separate British colonies. By 1900, they had achieved self-government under their own colonial parliaments, with the "mother country" handling their defense and foreign relations, intervening directly in their affairs only occasionally. -
The "CommonWealth of Australia" comes into existence. All the territories from one "federation" with its own Parliament. But the British monarch remains the head of state !