circa 120,000 BCE — The people later to be known as Indigenous Australians first arrive in Australia
In the traditions of the Indigenous Australian peoples, their ancestors were created with the land, at the dawn of what...
September 9, 2024
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April 29, 1770 — Captain James Cook is the first European to make contact with Australian Natives
It was on his first voyage of discovery that Captain James Cook’s ship the Endeavour, sighted the eastern coast of...
August 9, 2021
January 18, 1788 — The First Fleet lands in Botany Bay
An advance party for the First Fleet to colonise Australia entered Botany Bay on this day. The Governor of the...
June 29, 2021
June 6, 1835 — John Batman makes a treaty with the Wurundjeri people
John Batman was a Tasmanian who organised a syndicate of investors to fund him and some other settlers to build...
January 9, 2021
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