Australia
1500-1700
based on the native people
1700 now based on western culture
derived from Britain
Not a super religious country only 9% people go to church weekly
1500's Aborigines lived there for about 40,000 yrs until the Europeans arrived
same as 1500s in 1600's
Dutch made the first recorded European landing in 1606
1700s
james cook sails to austrailia and claims it for britain in 1770
in 1783 the british lost their amercan colonies and so they established a penal colony
1800s
early 1800s free settlers campaigned to the end of the shipment of convicts to the autralian colonies
there was a gold rush in 1850s
from 1855 to 1890 the six colonies gained independence on their own internal affairs
1900s in 1901 the commonwealth of australia was formed as part of british empire
fought with britain in ww1 on the western front
gallipoli campaign
many australians felt that gallipoli campaign was birth of their country their first major military action was australians
ww2 japenese were attacking the australian territory of papua new guinea
australians fought against them and eventually defeated them
successfully defended itself with their australian troops
2000
olympic were held in sudney
100th anniversary of the proclamation of commonwealth of australia
after 9/11 attacks australian pime minister john howard sent trooops to afghanistan and iraqu
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