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britain and convicts
A Number of european explores sailed the coast of Australia, then known as new holland, in the 17th century. However it wasent untill 1770 that captain james Cook charterd the east coast and claimed it for britain. -
Captain Cook discovers Australia
Captain James Cook charts the east coast in his ship the HM Endeavour. Cook claims it as a British possession and names Eastern Australia New South Wales. -
Jails
alot of poor people were in jails steelinng food,pick pocketing and they had to do this to suvive -
Arthur Phillup settles at Sydney.
British Nazy Captain Arthur Phillip founds a penal settlement at Sydney. He had arrived with a fleet of 11 vessels, carrying nearly 800 convicts. The Aboriginal population at the time is thought to number several hundred thousand. -
Gold is found
Gold is found at several locations leading to gold rushes throughout the decade. The population increases threefold in 10 years to pass the million mark. An influx of Chinese leads to restrictions on their entry. Aborigines are treated very badly and their number collapse. -
Robbert Towns
Robbert Towns , a trader, settled in Australia in 1843, after retiring from the british navy -
Walter Hume
Walter Hume decided that moving to the colinies would offer him opportunities that he did not have in England. -
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the travel to Australia
the travel to Australia to 1788 to 1900 -
prisoners and jail space
there was too much convicts in jail so they had to move to another place.That place was Australia. -
an arrival of a convict
Mary Haydock arrived in Syndey in 1792. She was a convict found guilty of horse steeling in England when she was 13. -
Population
There are now nearly 12,000 white people in the colonies of NSW and Van Diemen's Land. -
Bushrangers
In Van Diemen's Land, bushrangers have become more hostile and entrenched. Their raids hamper small and large settlers alike, but also exacerbate conflicts between Aboriignies an whites. From Sydney, Macquarie offers bushrangers an amnesty if they give themselves up, but this only encourages them to continue a crime wavein the expectation tht they'll receive pardons. -
Moreton Bay becomes a convict settlement
The New South Wales Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane instructed explorer John Oxley to find an area for a new penal settlement. As a result Moreton Bay became a convict settlement in 1824. -
Colony of Western Australia established
Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captian James Stirling. -
South Australia established.
South Australia established, with Adelaide as its capital. -
The growth of Melbourne
In 1839 Melbourne had become a busy port for wool and busy exports to England. By 1841 the non-Aboriginal population in the Port Phillip District was 11 738, of whom 4479 lived in Melbourne. -
The decovery of gold
in 1851, news of the dicoveryy of huge gold deposits in Australia,
particularly in Victoria, spread like wildfirearound he would. -
Port Phillip District
Port Phillip District officially became the Colony of Victoria -
Coach travel
In 1854 Cobb and Co coaches, each able to carry 15 passengers, began to travel the 160km trip from Melbourne to the Gold Diggings in Bendigo. By the 1870s Cobb and Co were serving all the colonies, with 6000 horses working each day, travelling 45000km between them each week. -
River transport
Paddle steamers began to travel the Murray and Darling Rivers, connecting river towns, such as Mildura, Swan Hill and Echuch in Viictoria and Goolwa in SA. They towed barges of wheat and wool and returned with supplies. -
Currency
The bank of NSW is established. It will eventually become known as Westpac. Currency stabliaises temporarily. The coony begins to drastically reduce trade in barter; IOUs, 'dumps' and 'holey dollars' as a more regualr supply of English coins arrives.
