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1503 - Binot Paulmyer
1605 - Willem Jansz
1616 - Dirk Hartog
1629 - Wreck of the Bativia
1642 - Abel Tasman
1696 - Willem de Vlamingh
1688 - William Dampier
1770 - Captain James Cook
1770 - Sir Joseph Banks
1788 - La Perouse, French navigator, Botany Bay, Arthur Philip, First Fleet
1801 - Nicolas Thomas Baudin
, French explorer, 1801
1788
- Exploration of the Sydney Region,
Arthur Phillip, Watkin Tench, John
Wilson, John Shortland, George Caley
1976 - Dr George
Bass, English Naval Surgeon and Explorer -
1796 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who
circumnavigated and named Australia
1802 - John Oxley, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Naval Officer, Explorer
1813
- Early Attempts to Cross the Blue Mountains, William Dawes, Henry Hacking, George Bass, Francis Barrallier, George Caley
1813 - Gregory Blaxland, Free Settle, pioneer, explorer, Blue Mountains
1813
- William
Charles Wentworth, Convict' son, Explorer, Blue Mountains, Editor, the Australian newspaper, Australian Patriotic Association
1813 - William Lawson, Ensign, New South Wales Corps, explorer, Blue Mountains
1813
- Exploration of South Eastern Australia, George William Evans, Archibald Bell, John Oxley, Thomas Whyte, John Howe, John Blackman
1814
- A road across the Blue Mountains, Lachlan Macquarie, George Evans, William Cox, Major Thomas Mitchell, David Lennox
1813 - Exploration of South Eastern Australia
1814 - A road across the Blue Mountains
1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins, Crossing the Blue Mountains, The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains
1828
- Exploration of Western NSW and Victoria, John Sturt, Hume, Angus McMillan, Paul Edmund de
Strzelecki.
1844 - Exploration of Queensland and Northern Territory
1860 - The Burke and Wills expedition leaves Melbourne
1791 - Labillardiere Jacques, French Naturalist, Australian flora
1800 - Bentham George,
British botanist, 'Flora Australiensis'
1879 - Baker Richard Thomas
Missionaries
1911 - The Reverend John Flynn
1928 - Royal
Flying Doctor Service
Travel
1814 - Coach Travel, William
Highland, Royal Mail, Peter Cunningham, James Atkinson
1865 First steam
trains in Queensland (from
Ipswich
to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester))
1883 -
Sydney-Melbourne railway opened.
1889 - Rail network linking Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane is
completed
1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L, Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers
1853 - Cobb & Co, Australian land transport- coach travel, Freeman Cobb, James
Rutherford, Bathurst NSW
Gold
1832 - Discovering
Gold in New South Wales, 1832, James Mc Brien, Fish River, 1851, Bathurst, Edward Hargraves, W. B. Clarke
1851 - Gold in Victoria, James William Esmond, Ballarat, Bendigo
1851 - Finding Gold, Colony, Victoria, Ballarat, Diggers, Digging a shaft, Puddling, Crushing Quartz
1851 - Gold and Bushranging, Gold, Henry Garrett, Frank McCallum, George Melville, George Wilson, William Atkins, Black Douglas
1860 - Chinese Diggers, Chinese, Colony, Victoria, gold, Ballarat, Bendigo
1867 - Gold discovered in Gympie Queensland
1869 - Welcome Stranger, large gold nugget, Richard Oates, John Deason
1886 - Gold found in
South Australia
1887 - Gold
in Western Australia
Coal
Lumber
Water |
New South Wales
1796
- Brief History of Wollongong, City of Wollongong, Illawarra Region, Bass and Flinders, Charles Throsby, James Meehani,
1820
- Pioneer History of the Macleay River, Kempsey, 1820, John Oxley, timber, cedar logging
1893 - Wollongong Fortifications
- Picture study.
1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1859 - Queensland separates from New South Wales
Tasmania
1804 - Hobart Town is established in Tasmania
1833 - Port Arthur penal settlement opens in Tasmania.
Western Australia
1616 -
Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht arrives at Cape Inscription
and leave pewter plate. Coastal region in the vicinity is shown on Hartog's
maps as Eendrachtsland. Believed to be first landfall on Western
Australian soil by Europeans. (An earlier 1603 encounter in the northern
coast of Australia near Papua New Guinea by the Duyfken is credited
as being the first Australian visit by European explorers.)
1618 - The Zeewulf makes landfall north of Eendrachtsland.
1619 - Frederick de Houtman in two ships bound for
Bativia encountered
dangerous shoals which were subsequently named Houtman Abrolhos. Following
successful navigation of the Abrolhos, Houtman made landfall in the region
Dirk Hartog had encountered.
1622 - Leeuwin makes landing south of Abrolhos.
1627 - Gulden Zeepaert skippered by Francois Thijssen sails along
south coast towards Great Australian Bight.
1629 -
Bativia
strikes a reef of the Abrolhos. Skipper Francisco Pelsaert sails the ship's
small boat to Batavia for rescue. After returning 3 months later finds
evidence of mutiny and many previous survivors murdered.
1658 - three Dutch ships visit south coast: Waekende Boey under
Captain S. Volckertszoon, the Elburg under Captain J. Peereboom and
the Emeloort under Captain A. Joncke.
1688-1699 -
William Dampier
in the Cygnet explores the
northwest coastline and sails down the coast.
1791 - George Vancouver makes formal claim at Possession Point, King
George Sound, Albany. Small penal settlement established.
1797 - Willem de Vlamingh find
Dirk Hartogplate and replaces it with his
own. He also explores Swan River area.
1801-1803 - the Naturaliste captained by Jacques Felix Emmanuel, Baron Hamelin visits
what is now know as Garden Island. He names it Isle Buache.
1803 - Matthew Flinders sights Cape Leeuwin en route to charting of
southern Australian coastline. By 1806 has completed the first
circumnavigation of Australia
1818 - Louis de Freycinet finds de Valmingh's plate and removes it to
France.
1826 - small settlement established on behalf of New South Wales at
Albany
1827 - James Stirling explores Swan River area.
1829 - Establishment of Western Australia, Dirk Hartog, Willem de Vlamingh, William Dampier, Louis de Freycinet, British settlements
1829 - James Stirling, Western Australia, first Governor, British marine officer, Scotland, West Indies, Surrey,
Mediterranean,
South Australia
1836, South Australia established, with Adelaide as its capital.
Victoria
1935 - Foundation of Melbourne
- William Buckley - George Bass - James Grant - John Murray - Port
Phillip - Charles Robbins - Charles Grimes - Yarra River - David Collins - John Pascoe Fawkner -
John Batman - John Batman's treaty - Australia Felix
1851 - Victoria separates from New South Wales
Queensland
1825 - Brisbane is established
1839 - Transportation of
convicts to Queensland ceases
1844 - Exploration of Queensland and Northern Territory
- Ludgig
Leichhardt, T.L. Mitchell, E. B. Kennedy, A. C.
Gregory, John Jardine
1842 - Free
settlement is permitted in Queensland
1859 - Colony of
Queensland formed
1860 - The Burke and Wills expedition leaves Melbourne
1862 - Qld. western boundary changed from Longitude 141 deg. east to 138 deg.
east
1863 - First Chief
Justice appointed in Queensland (Sir James Cockle).
1864 - In March, Major flooding of the
Brisbane
River invaded the centre of town
1864 - In April, Fires devastated the west side of Queen street in Brisbane. (the main
shopping centre)
1864 - In December a fire wiped out the rest of
Queen street and adjoining streets
1865 - First steam
trains in Queensland (from
Ipswich
to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester)).
1867, Queensland Constitution consolidated from existing legislation.
1867, Gold discovered in
Gympie Queensland
1891 - Australian shearers' strike - leads to formation of the
Labor
Party
1899 - World's
first Labor Party Government (Premier
Anderson
Dawson lasted one week)
1904 - Women's
suffrage in Queensland state elections
1909
- University of Queensland established
1920 - Qantas founded to
serve outback Queensland
1922 - Queensland Upper house
of Parliament
abolished
1928 - Royal
Flying Doctor Service makes first ever flight, departing
from Cloncurry
1982
- Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane
1988 - Expo 88
held in Brisbane
Northern Territory
1873 - Ayers Rock is first sighted by Europeans.
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