History timelineBy Aliana Lewis

1688

• 4th of January.• Australia was called New Holland.• William Dampier explored the mapped parts of New Holland/

Australia.• Reported that it was a dry empty and barren.• He was unimpressed by the lack of water and what he described as

the unhappiest people in the world.

1770

• Captain James Cook found Australia.• He reported that it was a green and beautiful country unlike William

Dampier’s less positive reports.• Claimed it for England.

1788

• First Fleet arrived on the beach of Botany Bay, NSW.• Around 722 convicts on board including over 17 children convicts. • The jails were too filled so English people decided to start sending

some people over to New Holland for up to 20 years.

1789

• White people started decimating indigenous populations.• Lots of aboriginals were forced to wear chains around their necks to

stop them from escaping the horrible lives they were forced to live.• Indigenous children were ripped from their mother’s arms.• Indigenous people were forced to work as slaves for white people.

1960

• Sir Macfarlane Burnet won Australian of the year.• For winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

1980

• Ahn Do came to Australia on a boat as a refugee.• Now is a really successful Author and comedian.

1990

• Cathy Freeman won Australian of the year for being the first aboriginal Commonwealth Games gold medallist.• Born in Mackay, QLD.• Inspired other aboriginals by winning a gold medal at the

Commonwealth Games.• Currently ranks as the 6th fastest 400M sprinter of all time.

2000

• Cathy Freeman won a gold medal in the Olympics for sprinting.

2004

•I was born!!!!!• I was born in Coolum, QLD

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