First British settlement in Australia
1788 · Event
First Fleet raises the flag at Sydney Cove (Port Jackson); penal colony of New South Wales established.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
Around 1788
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)