Australia – a brief history
60 000 - 50 000 BC – Aborigines arrive from South-East Asia
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1644 – Abel Tasman arrives in the north-west coast of Australia
1770 – Captain Cook arrives in Botany Bay (Zatoka Botaniczna) in Sydney and claims the country for Britain
1788 – first fleet with convicts from Britain
1851 -1860s – Gold Rush in Victoria and New South Wales started by Edward Hargraves in Ophir
1868 – convict transportation ends (162 000 people transported)
1877 – first cricket match Australia vs England
1901 – federation of colonies into Commonwealth of Australia (Związek Australijski)
1901 – Sir Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister
1914-18 – Australian troops help Allies in WWI
1927 - Canberra becomes the official capital (1908 – selected as a location, before- Melbourne)
1932, March 19 – Sydney Harbour Bridge completed (started in 1923)
1939-45 - Australian troops help Allies in WW II
1956 – Olympic Games in Melbourne
1967 – Aboriginal people get citizenship
1971 – Aboriginal flag
1973 – Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1985 – Aborigines get back Uluru
2000 – Olympic Games in Sydney
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