History
•Australia's Aboriginal people, the originalinhabitants of the Australian continent, arrivedfrom Asia at least 50,000 years ago.
•18. century – Australiawas mapped byDutch, British, Francenavigators
•1770 - Captain JamesCook charted the eastcoast and claimed itfor Britain.
•1788-1830 – settlement – established penalcolonies
•From 1830 – enunciation of the doctrine ofterra nullius big colonization by Europian
•1850 - discovery of gold – many immigrantsfrom all over the world
•https://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/the-land-and-its-people.html#brief_history
•1901 - the six coloniesunited to form thefederal Commonwealthof Australia
•From 1914–18, morethan 400,000Australians volunteeredin World War I.
