Convict transportation to Australia
1788–1868 · Event
Eighty years of transportation ship some 162,000 convicts from Britain and Ireland to the Australian colonies — punishment as colonisation.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, British Empire, Master
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- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
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