Australia & the Pacific
Explore Australia & the Pacific on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- First Fleet lands at Botany Bay (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Sydney Opera House (1973)
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001)
- Anzac landings at Gallipoli (1915)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Moai erected on Easter Island (1100)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)
- Edmund Hillary (1919)
- Don Bradman (1908)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Captain James Cook (1728)
- Australian gold rush (1851)
- Attack on Darwin (1942)
- Mabo decision (1992)
- Black Summer bushfires (2019)
- Battle of Beersheba (Light Horse charge) (1917)
- Volcanic eruption at Hunga Tonga (2022)
- Tasman reaches New Zealand (1642)
- White Australia policy (1901)
- Eureka Stockade (1854)
- New Zealand Wars (1845)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)
- Kon-Tiki expedition (1947)