History

• Australia's Aboriginal people, the original inhabitants of the Australian continent, arrived from Asia at least 50,000 years ago.

• 18. century – Australia was mapped by Dutch, British, France navigators

• 1770 - Captain James Cook charted the east coast and claimed it for Britain.

• 1788-1830 – settlement – established penal colonies

• From 1830 – enunciation of the doctrine of terra nullius big colonization by Europian

• 1850 - discovery of gold – many immigrants from all over the world

• https://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/the-land-and-its-people.html#brief_history

• 1901 - the six colonies united to form the federal Commonwealth of Australia

• From 1914–18, more than 400,000 Australians volunteered in World War I.