关于澳大利亚历史的英语介绍

History of Australia in brief

> 70,000 BC: Aborigines are thought to have immigrated to Australia

42,000 BC: Aboriginal engravings are found in South Australia dating back to this time.

35,000 BC: Aborigines are thought to have reached Tasmania.

2000 BC: The Dingo is the first domesticated animal to reach Australia.

1300 AD: Marco Polo discusses an great unexplored southern land.

1616 AD: Dirk Hartog, a Dutch explorer, sails to Western Australia.

!688 AD: William Dampier, English explorer, arrives on the west coast of Australia.

1770: Captain James Cook lands on the more hospitable east coast of Australia and claims it for Britain.

1804: Hobart Town is established in Van Diemens Land which is now known as Tasmania.

1833: Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.

1851: The gold rush begins near Bathurst in New South Wales.