Australian megafauna extinction
c. 46,000 years ago · Event
Giant marsupials, birds and reptiles vanish within a few thousand years of human arrival; hunting, fire and climate are all blamed.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master
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- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
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- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)