Feb 2009 - "Black Saturday" - the worst bushfire in Oz history
2008 - Kevin Rudd apologises
2000 - Sydney Olympic Games
1992 - Native Title Act (Aboriginal Australians reclaim their sacred lands)
1970s-80s - boom of independent cinema ("Ocker" films)
1976/78 - battle between two iconic cars: Ford XB Falcon vs. Holden Commodore
1974 - Cyclone "Tracy" destroys Darwin and claims many lives
1973 - Sydney Opera House
1967 - referendum grants Aboriginal Australians electoral representation
1966 - The Battle of Long Tan (most significant battle ANZAC were involved in Vietnam)
1950s - Cultivated pearls industry starts in Broome
1948 - The Shool of the Air broadcasts first lesson
1942 - Darwin bombings (WWII) - the largest military attack against Australia ever
1936 - last Tasmanian Tiger dies in Hobart Zoo
1929 - 1933 - Great Depression
1928 - beginning of Royal Flying Doctor Service
1915 - The Battle of Gallipoli (WWI) - the birth of ANZAC identity and "Aussie voice"
1869 - 1969 - "Stolen Generations"
1913 - construction of Canberra commenced, it becomes actual capital city of Australia
1907 - Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club becomest world's first surf lifesaving service
1901 - 1907 - No 1 Rabbit Proof Fence finished to protect WA pastures against rabits
1st January 1901 - FEDERATION: The Commonwealth of Australia is founded
1880 - Ned Kelly executed at Melbourne Gaol
1879 - Royal National Park founded (world's second oldest national park, after Yellowstone)
1859 - 10 Rules of Australian Footbal (AFL) first written down
1854 - Eureka Stockade (Australia's only revolution)
1851 - Gold Rush in New South Wales
1840 - Edmund Strzelecki explores Snowy Mountains and names Mount Kosciszko
1814 - Matthew Flinders first introduces the name of the continent - Australia
1793 - first free settlers arrive
1788 - 1850 - total of 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia on 806 ships
1788 - First Fleet arrives at Bottany Bay and establishes first settlement in Port Jackson
1770 - James Cook lands at Bottany Bay and claims the "new land" for the British Crown
17th century - European exploration
1606 - Dutch merchant Willem Jans lands at Cape York
1300 - explorer Marco Polo describes "Southern Land"
Time of Creation - Dream Time: Aboriginal ancestral Totemic Spirit Beings form the land
60,000 - 40,000 BC - Aboriginal tribes colonise the continent of Australia
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