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The Land Down Under
HMS Supply's Turtle Hunting Expedition Ends in Failure
Exploring Party Names Blue Mountains
First Government Conservation Order: No Tree Cutting near Sydney Cove Stream.
French ships wrecked near Solomon Islands.
British Lt. King Claims Norfolk Island
Exploring Broken Bay
James Freeman: Pardoned Thief turned Executioner
First Execution: Thomas Barratt hanged for stealing in stores.
First Holy Communion in the colony, island named after Lord Howe.
Lt. Philip Gidley King's Settlement Mission on Norfolk Island
Sentences at First Criminal Court: 150 lashes for assault, imprisonment for bread theft.
Inauguration of Governor Phillip and Courts at Sydney Cove.
Convict Women Land Amid Storm
Rev. Richard Johnson's first religious service 'on the grass'.
Marines' Families and Livestock Land from Prince of Wales
First Settlers Clearing Sydney Cove
Sydney Cove Proclamation: Birth of Australia Day
Captain Phillip Reaches Sydney Cove at Dusk
French Ships Boussole and Astrolabe at Botany Bay
Exploring New Settlement Site: Sydney Cove Discovery
Seven ships, including HMS Sirius, arrive at Botany Bay.
Arrival of Transports at Botany Bay\n
Exploration and Interaction in Botany Bay
Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet sights Van Diemen's Land coast.
First Fleet departs for European colonisation.
English Lieutenant James Cook's expedition in HMS Endeavour charted the eastern coast, and claimed it for the British Crown. Australia was dubbed "terra nullius".
Indonesian Makassar People's Visits to Northern Australia's Coast
Dutch Explorer Charts Southwest Coast, Lands at Rottnest Island
Exploration of Australia's West Coast by William Dampier
Explorer John Daniel mapped western coast and Rottnest Island.
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