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Who were the European settlers in Australia?
While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and charted about 300 km of coastline.The arrival of Lieutenant James Cook, and then Arthur Phillip in 1788, marked the beginning of 'white settlement'. From 1788, Australia was treated by the British as a colony of settlement, not of conquest.Dutch

In 1606, Dutch explorers made the first recorded European sightings of, and first recorded landfalls on, the Australian mainland. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon.

Who were the first people in Australia : Aboriginal people are known to have occupied mainland Australia for at least 65,000 years. It is widely accepted that this predates the modern human settlement of Europe and the Americas. Increasingly sophisticated dating methods are helping us gain a more accurate understanding of how people came to be in Australia.

Why didn’t the Dutch colonize Australia

Most of the explorers of this period concluded that the apparent lack of water and fertile soil made the region unsuitable for colonisation.

What were the 19 crimes to be sent to Australia : The crimes that make up 19 Crimes include:

  • Grand Larceny, theft above the value of one shilling.
  • Petty Larceny, theft under one shilling.
  • Buying or receiving stolen goods, jewels, and plate
  • Stealing lead, iron, or copper, or buying or receiving.
  • Impersonating an Egyptian.
  • Stealing from furnished lodgings.

Hawkesbury River Massacre 1794 The first free settlers arrived on board the sailing ship Bellona on 16 January 1793. They were a farmer named Thomas Rose, his wife and four children and seven others.

Introduction. Australia was a collection of British colonies from 1788 until 1901. The first colonies were established as places where criminals were sent to live and work. These were known as convict settlements or penal colonies.

Why did the Dutch not settle in Australia

Most of the explorers of this period concluded that the apparent lack of water and fertile soil made the region unsuitable for colonisation.Convicts were no longer the major source of new arrivals to the colonies. With the discovery of gold in 1851 and a booming economy, people were now coming to Victoria and Australia by choice. People came from many countries, the majority from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, America, China and Germany.'Indigenous Australian' is a very general term that covers two very distinct cultural groups: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. These terms of grouping are umbrella terms, within which sits a large array of different nations, each with their own culture, language, beliefs and practices.

The Commonwealth of Australia came into existence on 1 January 1901 as a federation of former British colonies, however the human history of Australia commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the …

Did the French colonize Australia : While the French did not stay on in Australia, they did leave a lasting reminder with the many French names of towns and places along the WA coast.

Who would have colonized Australia if the British didn’t : To colonial historian Dr Keira Lindsey, the story of Australia is, essentially, an epic 'what if' story writ large. What if Australia had not been colonised by the British but by a host of maritime rivals: the French, the Portuguese, the Dutch

Did Europe send prisoners to Australia

Between 1788 and 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, about 7,000 arrived in 1833 alone. The convicts were transported as punishment for crimes committed in Britain and Ireland. In Australia their lives were hard as they helped build the young colony.

The men and women featured on the labels are real and not fictional characters. British rogues guilty of at least one of the 19 crimes were sentenced to live in Australia, rather than be put to death. This type of punishment was referred to as “transportation” and began around 1783.Australia's first people—known as Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 65,000 years.

Who were the first groups to immigrate to Australia : the Aboriginal peoples

They have helped build the economy and have transformed Australia from a predominantly British country into one of the most multicultural societies in the world. It must be remembered that the first migrants to Australia were the Aboriginal peoples.