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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating Britain in the first Ashes series. 1912 - Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time; 1915 - Surfing is first introduced to Australia; 1930 - Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings; 1930 - Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir Augustus Loftus [1] Governor of Queensland – Sir Arthur Kennedy [2] Governor of South Australia – Sir William Jervois [3] Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld until 5 April, vacant thereafter [4] Governor of Victoria – George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby [5]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Timeline of Australian history; The following lists events that happened during 1889 in Australia. Incumbents
14 May – Melbourne Football Club is founded. 6 June – The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.; July – Geelong Football Club is founded. [1]5 August – The passenger steamship SS Admella is shipwrecked on a submerged reef near Mount Gambier South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
[23] [25] This is the date Queen Victoria revoked the letters patent establishing North Australia, but it was not proclaimed in Australia until 16 January 1849. 1 July 1851 The portion of New South Wales south of the Murray River and a line from the headwaters of the river to Cape Howe was made the Colony of Victoria. [26] 1 January 1856
In the first two volumes of his History of Australia (1962, 1968) Manning Clark developed an idiosyncratic interpretation of Australian history telling the story of "epic tragedy" in which "the explorers, Governors, improvers, and perturbators vainly endeavoured to impose their received schemes of redemption on an alien, intractable setting". [5]