Before 1788

48000 BC

Arrival of first peoples

18000 BC

Rock art, engraved and painted

10000 BC

Rise of sea - Bass Strait separates Tasmania

8000 BC

Invention of boomerang

5000 BC

Rise of sea - Torres Strait separates New Guinea

3000 BC

Introduction of dingo, first domesticated species

1606

Willem Jansz is first European to map and record parts of Australian coastline

1700

Macassans from Eastern Indonesia make contact and trade

1770

Capt James Cook lands and charts eastern mainland of Australia

Born

Edward Smith Hall

Born:
in London, England
Died:
in New South Wales, Australia

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Born

William Bligh

Born:
in Plymouth, Devon, England
Died:
in England

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Born

Edward Riley

Born:
in London, England
Died:
in New South Wales, Australia

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Born

John Dickson

Born:
in at sea
Died:
in London, England

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Born

John Murray

Born:
in Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
Died:
in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia

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Born

Edward Powell

Born:
in Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died:
in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Born

James Mudie

Born:
in London, England
Died:
in Tottenham, London, England

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