timeline from eureka council.

200AD - Origin of the name Australia, Matthew Flinders, Latin, australis, terra australis incognita, unknown southern land 1600 - British Empire, English Colonialism, The Americas, "informal empire", Asia, Pax Britannica, New Imperialism, white - settler colonies 1503 - Binot Paulmyer, French navigator who claimed to discover of Australia in 1505. 1605 - Willem Jansz, Dutch navigator, first European known to see Australia 1616 - Dirk Hartog, Holland, sea captain, explorer, second European arrival, Hartog plate, Western Australia, Willem de Vlamingh 1629 - The wreck of the Bativia, Dutch East India Company ship, wrecked off Geraldton, Western Australia. 1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch explorer who Discovered Tasmania 1696 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea, captain, south, west coast, New Holland, Rottnest Island, Swan River, Dirk Hartog Island 1678 - Whig Movement, British politics, Whigs, Liberal Democrats, great noble houses, moneyed interest, religious dissent, Tories, Jacobitism, 1770 - Captain James Cook, English explorer, Mapped the east coast of Australia. 1770 - Sir Joseph Banks, English Naturalist, sailed with James Cook, advised Arthur Phillip. 1770 - Australian Freemasonry, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain Cook, Flinders, merino sheep, 1770 - First Fleet, United Grand Lodge of England 1688 - Dampier, British navigator, Naturalist, visited Western Australia. 1786 - English Background to Transportation 1786 - Irish Background to Transportation 1786 - Phillip's Mandate, New South Wales defined and the First Fleet authorized. 1786 - Pitt's Plan for Botany Bay, Disposing of Felons, Growing "New Zealand Hemp" 1787 - The First Fleet, Transportation, Penal Colony, Governor Phillip, Botany Bay, Convicts, Rebellion. 1787 - Rebellion on the voyage over, Women Convicts, First Fleet, Transportation, flogging 1787 - John Towers at Tenerife, First Fleet, Escape at Tenerife 1788 - First British Settlement established in New South Wales. 1788 - Phillip, Arthur, Updated, The first Governor of NSW. 1788 - Collins, David, First Fleet, HMS Sirius, First Judge Advocate of New South Wales, First Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman’s Land 1877 - Bare Island Fort - Sydney - Sydney - New South Wales - La Perouse - Colonial Architect Mr James Barnet 1788 - Dodd, Henry Edward, First Fleet Farmer, free man, Farm Cove, Governor Phillip, Rose Hill 1788 - Henry Waterhouse, First Fleet, officer, Sirius, Norfolk Island, Port Jackson, Supply, John Hunter, Reliance 1788 - Nathaniel Lucas, Convict, Feloniously Stealing, Seven Years, First Fleet, Norfolk Island, Philip Gidley King 1788 - John Munday, private marine, 18th (Plymouth) Company, New South Wales, First Fleet, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Norfolk Island 1788 - Richard Williams, Borrowdale, 2nd mate, First Fleet, aborigines 1788 - Thomas Lucas, First Fleet, Marine, Lady Juliana, Ann Howard, New South Wales corps, Daedalus, Norfolk Island, Governor Hunter 1788 - Peter Hibbs, Able Seaman, HMS Sirius, 25 March 1787 - Cascade Stream, Phillipsburg, Norfolk Island, Point Hibbs, HMS Porpoise 1788 - Watkin Tench, Royal Marine Corps, American War of Independence, First Fleet, captain - lieutenant, lieutenant - general 1788 - William Broughton, Charlotte, servant to Surgeon John White, storekeeper Parramatta, Norfolk Island acting deputy commissary 1788 - William Nash, Royal Marine, 58th (Plymouth) Company, 1st Fleeter, Prince of Wales, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Maria Haynes 1788 - Trades of the First Fleet Convicts, Clog Maker, Button Stamper, Dressmaker, Embroiderer, Furrier, Glove - maker, Lace Maker 1788 - Welsh First Fleeters, A list of Welsh convicts and crew. 1788 - First Fleeters of Scottish Origin, A list of Scot in the First Fleet 1788 - Scott, James, Sergeant of Marines, First Fleet, Prince of Wales, Dixon Library, Sydney, 1788 - Nancy Yeats (Yates) - Female convict - Lady Penrhyn, David Collins, 1788 - James John Grant, Van Daemons land, Norfolk Island 1788 - Elizabeth Thackery, Manchester Assizes, stealing a silk handkerchief, convict, Friendship, Fighting Five, Charlotte, 1786 - Botany Bay 1788 - Convict Punishment, Flogging or scourging, The Iron Gang, Deep Transportation, Hanging. 1788 - Exploration of the Sydney Region, Arthur Phillip, Watkin Tench, John Wilson, John Shortland, George Caley 1788 - Anglo - Australians, English Imperial Authority, The Colonial ruling Class 1788 - Convict Flags of Origin, A register of the nationalities of the Convicts. 1788 - Australian flag reveals Australian history - 1788 - Women Convicts, Damned Whores, A Feminist View of the status of Women Convicts. 1788 - A Brief History of Australian Women, Significance of Sexual Imbalance., The Morality Debate, 1788 - La Perouse, French navigator, Botany Bay, Arthur Philip, First Fleet 1788 - James Ruse, Convict, Pioneer Farmer 1788 - Convict Release, Ticket of Leave, Pardon 1788 - John Nicol, Mariner, Second Fleet, Lady Julian, Captain Aitkin, Lieutenant Edgar, Sarah Whitlam 1788 - Penal Colony Fashion 1788 - Birth of Australian Painting - 1789 - The NSW Corps, Rum Corps, Botany Bay Rangers, Castle Hill Uprising, Rum Rebellion 1789 - Tent Hospital Parramatta NSW 1789 - Parramatta Hospital - Picture Study 1789 - A timeline in the lives of the First Fleeters, Marines, Sirius, Smallpox, Aboriginal people, Broken Bay, Hawkesbury River 1789 - John Caesar Black Caesar, First Fleet Convict, Our first Bushranger 1790 - General Return of Male Convicts, List of names and occupations 1790 - West Indies Convicts - servants, slaves, London, theft, Sydney - 1790 - Wreck of the Sirius, Ralph Clark, Hunter, Governor King, William Bradley 1791 - Irish Evictees, Irish "Assisted Immigrants" 1791 - Mary Bryant The Girl From Botany Bay 1791 - Chinese Travellers, Convict Rebellion and Escape 1791 - Convict Betrayal, The New Holland Morning Post, 18th October 1791 - Arthur Phillip, All convicts to suffer death in exile 1791 - Convict Origins of the Trade Union Movement, Luddites, Last Labourers' Revolt, Last Labourers' Revolt, Tolpuddle Martyrs 1791 - Labillardiere Jacques, French Naturalist, Australian flora 1793 - Thomas Muir, Convict, Jacobeans, Constitutional Reform 1794 - Brewing in Australia, John Boston, Rum currency, Thomas Rushton, John Tooth, Charles Newman, Kent Brewery, Cascade, John Warren 1795 - John Hunter, Second governor New South Wales 1795 - Land Grants, Ticket of leave Convicts, Disposable Human Spears 1795 - Emancipists, Freed Slaves seeking Civil Rights in Colonial Australia 1976 - Dr George Bass, English Naval Surgeon and Explorer 1796 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia 1796 - Brief History of Wollongong, City of Wollongong, Illawarra Region, Bass and Flinders, Charles Throsby, James Meehani, 1797 - Irish Republicans, Defenders and United Irishman 1800 - Philip Gidley King, Third Governor of New South Wales 1800 - Bentham George, British botanist, 'Flora Australiensis' 1801 - Nicolas Thomas Baudin , French explorer, 1801 1802 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia 1802 - Pike Rebellion, How the Reverend Samuel Marsden earned his name of the Flogging Parson 1802 - John Oxley, Surveyor - General of New South Wales, Naval Officer, Explorer 1803 - Chinese In Australian Commercial History, Furniture and cabinet making, Indentured Shepherds, Fishing, Fish Curing, Market Gardening 1804 - Hobart Town is established 1804 - Castle Hill Uprising, Birth of Australian Republicanism 1805 - John Adams, Convict Biography 1805 - William Bligh, 4th Governor of New South Wales deposed by the Rum Rebellion 1807 - Van Daemon's Land Bolters, Tasmanian Convicts turned Bushrangers 1808 - Lachlan Macquarie, 6th Governor of New South Wales 1808 - Rum Rebellion, William Bligh, Rum Corps, John Macarthur, mutiny 1811 - Luddites, Luddites, Convicts, Trade Unionism 1812 - Michael Howe, Michael Howe, convict, rebel commander, bushranger, first Native Australian land claim 1813 - Early Attempts to Cross the Blue Mountains, William Dawes, Henry Hacking, George Bass, Francis Barrallier, George Caley 1813 - Gregory Blaxland, Free Settle, pioneer, explorer, Blue Mountains 1813 - William Charles Wentworth, Convict' son, Explorer, Blue Mountains, Editor, the Australian newspaper, Australian Patriotic Association 1813 - William Lawson, Ensign, New South Wales Corps, explorer, Blue Mountains 1813 - Exploration of South Eastern Australia, George William Evans, Archibald Bell, John Oxley, Thomas Whyte, John Howe, John Blackman 1814 - Coach Travel, William Highland, Royal Mail, Peter Cunningham, James Atkinson 1814 - A road across the Blue Mountains, Lachlan Macquarie, George Evans, William Cox, Major Thomas Mitchell, David Lennox 1814 - Australian Boxing, The Early Days - Broughton's Rules, London Prize Ring Rules, James Kelly, Young Kable, Ned Chalker, Young Bailey 1815 - Richard Bankin, Convict Biography, burglary, Prudence Perkins, Many Ann, Susanna, Sarah 1818 - Colonial Hospital Parramatta, Governor Macquarie, Parramatta, John Watts, 1819 - Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney,Male convict Barracks, Female infirm, destitute asylum, Courts and Government Offices, Museum, 1819 - History of Australian Poetry, Barron Field, Australia, First Fruits of Australian Poetry, 1819, W. C. Wentworth, Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, 1826, Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall, George Gordon McCrae, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads, The Bulletin, Henry Lawson, Andrew Barton Paterson (who wrote under the name Banjo Paterson), Joseph Furphy, Louis Becke, Price Warung, J. F. Archibald, 1890's, James Burton Stephens, George Essex Evans, Victor Daley (who used the pen name Creeve Roe), Bernard O'Dowd, Francis Adams, Dame Mary Gilmore, Hugh McCrae, Christopher Brennan, Shaw Neilson, C. J. Dennis 1819 - Commissioner Bigge, Inquiry, Convicts, Lachlan Macquarie, Wentworth, Macarthur, Rev. S. Marsden, Exclusivist 1820 - Currency Lads & Lasses, Convict children, Unique Australian Culture 1820 - Arthur Thistlewood, English Revolutionary, Cato Street Conspiracy, Spa Fields Riot 1820 - Matthew Bradey, Australia's Robin Hood, Convict Rebel Leader, Bushranger, Daemon's Land 1820 - Convict Assignment, State administered slave labour force 1820 - Squatters, Illegal occupation of land, Ticket-of-Leave Convicts, emancipists, pioneers 1820 - Pioneer History ofthe Macleay River, Kempsey, 1820 - John Oxley, timber, cedar logging 1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins, Crossing the Blue Mountains, The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains 1824 - John Knatchbull, Convict, The Tea Sweeteners, arsenic, Norfolk Island 1824 - Richmond Gaol, Tasmania, Convicts, Penal Colony Institution, military barracks 1824 - Richmond Gaol, the Guided Tour, Tasmania, Room by room 1824 - Moreton Bay penal colony established in Queensland 1825 - Botamy Bay, Just for fun. 1825 - Brisbane is established 1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L, Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers 1828 - Exploration of Western NSW and Victoria, John Sturt, Hume, Angus McMillan, Paul Edmund de Strzelecki. 1828 - South African Convicts, Convicts, 1828 to 1838 - "the excitable classes", "South African blacks" 1829 - Establishment of Western Australia, Dirk Hartog, Willem de Vlamingh, William Dampier, Louis de Freycinet, British settlements 1829 - James Stirling, Western Australia, first Governor, British marine officer, Scotland, West Indies, Surrey, Mediterranean, 1830 - Scourging Statistics, New South Wales, Penal Colony, Convict punishment, cat - o' - nine tails 1830 - Captain Swing, Last Labourers' Revolt, Swing Riots, Swing letters, mechanisation, Corn Laws 1831 - Thomas Cook, Convict, Respectables, Incendiarists, The Exile's Lamentations. 1832 - Discovering Gold in New South Wales, 1832 - James Mc Brien, Fish River, 1851 - Bathurst, Edward Hargraves, W. B. Clarke 1833 - Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania. 1833 - Scourging, Expert Opinion, New South Wales, Penal Colony, Convict punishment, cat - o' - nine tails` 1833 - Norfolk Island Rebellion, Penal Colony, convict rebellion, Laurence Frayne, Commander Morisset, Captain Charles Sturt, Foster Fyans 1834 - William Delaforce, Convict biography, Port Macquarie 1834 - Tolpuddle Martyrs, English farm labourers, Transportation, Trade Union activities - George and James Loveless (or Lovelace), Convicts 1835 - Australian Patriotic Association, New South Wales, convicts, Emancipists, representative government, Constitution Act of 1842 1835 - Foundation of Melbourne, William Buckley, George Bass, James Grant, John Murray, Port Phillip, Charles Robbins, Charles Grimes, 1836 - South Austra