🇦🇺 Australian History
50,000+ yrs ago
First Australians arrive
1606
Dutch exploration
1770
Captain Cook charts east coast
1788
First Fleet arrives
1851
Gold rush begins
1856
Secret ballot introduced
1880
Ned Kelly captured
1895
Women's suffrage (SA)
1901
Federation
1902
Federal women's vote
1915
ANZAC Day — Gallipoli
1927
Parliament moves to Canberra
1945
End of World War II
1949
Australian Citizenship Act
1962
Indigenous voting rights
1967
Referendum
1973
End of White Australia policy
1975
Racial Discrimination Act
1988
Bicentenary
2008
Apology to Stolen Generations