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| 1770 |
| | Captain Cook reaches the mainland of Australia, at a place which he names Botany Bay, and continues up the eastern coast | |
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| 1772 |
| | Captain Cook sets off, in HMS Resolution, on his second voyage to the southern hemisphere | |
| | Mourner's costume from Tahiti Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
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| 1779 |
| | British explorer Captain James Cook is killed in a skirmish with natives in Hawaii over a stolen boat | |
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| 1779 |
| | Joseph Banks tells a committee of the House of Commons that the east coast of Australia is suitable for the transportation of convicted felons | |
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| 1787 |
| | The First Fleet (eleven ships carrying about 750 convicts) leaves Portsmouth for Australia | |
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| 1788 |
| | After a journey of eight months from England the First Fleet reaches Australia, anchoring in Botany Bay | |
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| 1788 |
| | Arthur Phillip, selecting a suitable coastal site for the first penal colony in Australia, names the place Sydney Cove | |
| | Map of Australia showing the distribution of convicts, c.1820 National Archives, Kew
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| 1789 |
| | Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against the captain, William Bligh | |
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| 1790 |
| | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1798 |
| | British explorer George Bass sails round Tasmania in an open whaleboat, discovering the strait which now bears his name | |
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