Duyfken lands in Australia
1606 · Event
Willem Janszoon's Dutch ship charts the Cape York coast, the first recorded European landing in Australia.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Age of Exploration, Master, The Low Countries
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Arrival of the First Fleet (1788)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
Around 1606
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)