Arrival of the First Fleet
1788 · Event
Arthur Phillip's eleven ships land about 1,400 people, half of them convicts, at Sydney Cove: the beginning of British colonisation of Australia.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master, British Empire
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- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
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