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)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Australian gold rush (1851)
- Anzac landings at Gallipoli (1915)
- New Zealand Wars (1845)
- Mabo decision (1992)
- Tasman reaches New Zealand (1642)
- 1967 Australian referendum (1967)
- Attack on Darwin (1942)
- Battle of the Coral Sea (1942)
- Dismissal of the Whitlam government (1975)
- Moai erected on Easter Island (1100)
- Sydney Opera House (1973)
- Captain James Cook (1728)
- Papua New Guinea independence (1975)
- White Australia policy (1901)
- Eureka Stockade (1854)
- Edmund Hillary (1919)
- Rainbow Warrior bombing (1985)
- Don Bradman (1908)
- Sydney Harbour Bridge opens (1932)
- Lapita culture spreads through Melanesia (1500 BCE)
- Statute of Westminster 1931 (1931)