World History of Austraila :
- BC Australia BC
- BC 53,000 (aprox) The Aboriginal people migrated from Asia to Australia
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- AD Australia AD
- AD 1606 Luis Vaez de Torres sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea.
- AD 1688 William Dampier landed near King Sound, on the northwest coast of Australia Australia
- AD 1700s Captain John Macarthur began experiments in breeding fine-wool sheep
- AD 1770 Captain James Cook landed at an inlet that he named Botany Bay (Now part of Sydney Australia )
- AD 1788 First British convicts shipped to Botany Bay, Australia
- AD 1802-3, Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigated the continent of Australia
- AD 1813 Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth, and William Lawson found a way over the Blue Mountains, part of a range of mountains that extended almost unbroken down the east coast and prevented the expansion of settlements;
- AD 1827, Captain Charles Sturt, traced the Lachlan River, reaching the Darling Downs.
- AD 1840 End of Transportation of convicts from Britain to most of Australia
- AD 1851 Gold found in southeastern Australia
- AD 1899 Australia and New Zealand troops sent to Boer War
- AD 1901 Commonwealth of Australia formed
- AD 1927 Canberra becomes federal capital of Australia
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- AD Pacific Ialands
- AD 500s Polynesians, from SE Asia, settle in Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island
- AD 1300s Huge stone statues erected on Easter Island
- AD 1519-22 Ferdinand Magellan voyage around the world: completed by his crew
- AD 1768-71 First of British Captain James Cook's three voyages to Pacific
- AD 1770 Spanish sailors reach Easter Island
- AD 1772-75 Captain Cook's second voyage to the Pacific
- AD 1776-79 Cook's third voyage (pushed too hard and killed at Hawaii)
- AD 1787-89 Voyage of William Bligh on the Bounty
- AD 1831 Charles Darwin 5 year Pacific voyage
- AD 1860-70 Second Maori War in New Zealand
- AD 1861 Gold discovered in Otago, New Zealand
- AD 1864 First French convicts sent to New Caledonia
- AD 1874 Prince David Kalakaua becomes ruler of Hawaii (to 1891)
- AD 1913 Wallis Islands become a French protectorate
- AD 1920 New Zealand given mandate over Samoa
- AD 1929 Uprising of Mau people of Samoa against New Zealand government
- AD 1962 Western Samoa becomes independent
- AD 1970 Tonga and Fiji gain independence from Britain
- AD 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia
- AD 700s First Polynesians settle in the Cook Islands
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