ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Australia </title> <META name="keywords" content="History of Australia, Timeline of Australia"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> New Zealand </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xnewzealand.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xaustralia.html"> <img src = "../banners/banaustralia.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../britain/xuk.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> United Kingdom </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on November 20th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Australia </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1606 <BR> 1616 <BR> 1629 <BR> 1642 <BR> 1768 <BR> 1770 <BR> 1788 <BR> 1793 <BR> 1804 <BR> 1804 <BR> 1808 <BR><BR> 1817 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1825 <BR> 1829 <BR> 1833 <BR> 1835 <BR> 1835-1837 <BR> 1836 <BR> 1838 <BR><BR> 1839 <BR> 1843 <BR> 1851 <BR> 1851 <BR> 1855 <BR> 1856 <BR> 1856 <BR> 1859 <BR> 1863 <BR> 1868 <BR> 1869 <BR> 1870 <BR> 1881 <BR> 1888 <BR> 1895 <BR> 1899 <BR> 1899-1902 <BR> 1901 <BR><BR><BR> 1901 <BR> 1902 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1906 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1909 <BR> 1909 <BR> 1910 <BR> 1911 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR><BR> 1920 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1921 <BR> 1929 <BR> 1931 <BR> 1931 <BR> 1933 <BR> 1939-1941 <BR> 1940 <BR> 1941-1945 <BR><BR><BR> 1942 <BR> 1943 <BR> 1944 <BR> 1945 <BR> 1946 <BR> 1950-1953 <BR> 1952 <BR> 1954 <BR> 1955 <BR> 1956 <BR> 1958 <BR> 1962 <BR> 1965-1972 <BR> 1966 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1968 <BR> 1971 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1999 <BR> 2000 <BR> 2002 <BR> 2003-2004 <BR> 2003 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Dutch exlorer Willem Jansz sighted Cape York; Spaniard Torres passed Torres Strait in the same year <BR> Dutch explorer Dirk Hartiog reached Western Australia <BR> Dutch (V.O.C.) ship Batavia wrecked on Australian coast <BR> Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman proved Australia to be an island. <BR> British explorer James Cook visited, described Botany Bay, described aborigines as "noble savages" <BR> New South Wales claimed as British colony <BR> British penal colony founded at Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay, Australia <BR> Arrival of the first free settlers at Sydney Cove <BR> First British settlement established at Hobart, Tasmania (then known as Van Diemens Land) <BR> Insurrection of Irish convicts at Vinegar Hill <BR> New South Wales governor arrested by men of the Rum Corporation upset about his attemopts to break <BR> their monopoly on the sale of liquor; only in 1809 did the new governor restore control (Rum Rebellion) <BR> Name "Australia" officially adopted <BR> New South Wales granted self-government <BR> Colony for hardcore convicts established at Brisbane <BR> Van Diemens Land (modern Tasmania) separated from NSW, established s separate colony <BR> British colony of Western Australia established at Perth <BR> Colony of South Australia founded <BR> Governor of NSW declared aborigins would not own their land <BR> Establishment of the settlement of Melbourne <BR> Adelaide founded <BR> Arrival of first German Old Lutheran immigrants. They emigrated in protest of the attempted unification of the <BR> Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist) churches in Prussia. <BR> Arrival of first Scottish immigrants <BR> First lections held to legislature in NSW <BR> Victoria separated from NSW <BR> Gold discovered in NSW, Victoria; begin of Ballarat Gold Rush <BR> Victoria passed Chinese Immigration Act <BR> Australia first country in the world to introduce the secret ballot <BR> Van Diemens Land renamed Tasmania <BR> Colony of Queensland established <BR> South Australia annexed Northern Territories <BR> Shipment of convicts to Australia discontinued <BR> Aborigines Protection Act passed in Victoria <BR> Australian colonies form separate armed forces; British forces withdrawn <BR> First census, population of Australia without aborigines 2.1 million <BR> PMs of NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania agreed on restricting Chinese immigration <BR> South Australia introduced women's suffrage <BR> Western Australia introduced women's suffrage <BR> Australian forces fought in Boer War <BR> Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia <BR> formed Commonwealth of Australia. Unified parliament established; population (without aborigines) <BR> 3,773,801. Australian flag adopted <BR> Australian Labour Party founded; Labour Parties existed in the various colonies since the early 1890es <BR> Australia introduced women's suffrage for federal elections. <BR> Australian Labour Party the first Labour Party in the world to form a government <BR> Britain transferred administration of Papua (SE New Guinea) to Australia <BR> Commonwealth of Australia elevated to Dominion of Australia <BR> Australian Navy established <BR> Currency Reform; British Pound Sterling replaced by Australian Pound <BR> Northern Territories Act <BR> Canberra founded, designated as capital <BR> ANZAC created <BR> World War I; ANZAC forces fought a.o. at Gallipoli, in Palestine. Australian forces occupied German <BR> Guinea. <BR> Australia founding member of League of Nations <BR> Former German New Guinea, Nauru granted by League of Nations as a mandated territory to Australia. <BR> Australian airline QANTAS established <BR> First women elected into Australian Parliament <BR> Wall Street Crash marked beginning of Great Depression; Australia gave up Gold Standard <BR> Wages of state employees, pensions cut by 20 % <BR> Statute of Westminster; Australia granted full sovereignty <BR> Australian Antarctic Territory claimed <BR> World War II; War against Germany. ANZAC forces fought a.o. in North Africa. <BR> Communist Party of Australia banned <BR> World War II : War against Germany and Japan. Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies, New Guinea; <BR> temporarily a Japanese invasion of Australia was feared. U.S. forces stationed in Australia. <BR> Australia suffered 30,000 dead n WW II. <BR> Darwin (Northern Territories) raided by Japanese Airforce <BR> First woman elected into federal parliament <BR> Liberal Party of Australia founded <BR> Australia founding member of United Nations <BR> Australian National University (Canberra) founded <BR> Australian forces participated in Korean War <BR> British began nuclear bomb test explosions in Australia <BR> Australia founding member of SEATO <BR> Administration of Cocos (Keeling) Islands transferred to Australia <BR> Olympic Summer Games staged at Melbourne <BR> Administration of Christmas Island transferred to Australia <BR> Adult aborigines granted voting right <BR> Australian forces participated in Vietnam War <BR> Currency Reform; Australian Pound replaced by Australian Dollar <BR> Full emancipation granted to Australian aborigines <BR> Nauru grantede independence <BR> First aborigine elected into Australia's parliament <BR> Legislation restricted immigration to applicants with professional skills <BR> Papua Niugini released into independence <BR> International peacekeeping force lead by Australians landed in East Timor <BR> Olympic Summer Games staged at Sydney <BR> Bali Night Club bombing; majority of victims Australian tourists <BR> Australia participated in Third Gulf War and in the occupation of Iraq <BR> Australian forces lead peacekeeping forces sent to Solomon Islands to end civil war <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1255000/1255673.stm"><B>BBC News</B></A>; from <A HREF = "http://timelines.ws/countries/AUSTRALIA.HTML"><B>timelines.ws</B></A> <BR> Australian Timeline 1918-1948, from <A HREF = "http://worldatwar.net/timeline/australia/18-48.html"><B>The World at War</B></A> <BR> MET Timelines : Australia <A HREF = "http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/10/oca/ht10oca.htm"><B>1800-1900</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/oca/ht11oca.htm"><B>1900-present</B></A> <BR> Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Australia, from <A HREF = "http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/kronologi/australia.htm"><B>Kirken i Norge</B></A> <BR> Article Australia, from <A HREF = "http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02113b.htm"><B>Catholic Encyclopedia</B></A> 1907 edition; from <A HREF = "http://65.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AU/AUSTRALIA.htm"><B>EB 1911</B></A> <BR> History of Australia, from <A HREF = "http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/australasia/australia/history.htm"><B>Lonely Planet</B></A>; from <A HREF = "http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0856774.html"><B>infoplease</B></A> <BR> Wars of Australia 1800-1999, from <A HREF = "http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/all/australia/findex.htm"><B>ACED</B></A> <BR> Australian History Timelines, compiled by <A HREF = "http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/history/australian.html"><B> Jackie Myers</B></A> <BR> Timeline of Van Diemens Land, from <A HREF = "http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~saul/history/tasmania.html"><B>History Matrix</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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