history

Discovery

During the 15th century, European explorers began great sea journeys in search of new lands and new riches and there was a race to see who would be the first to discover the mysterious "Great South Land" which many were convinced had to exist so that the planet would stay balanced.

There is a lot of evidence to show that the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch were here long before Captain James Cook claimed the land for England.

First Fleet Database A list of the convicts on the First Fleet	Second Fleet Database A list of the convicts on the Second Fleet	The Third Fleet Database A list of the convicts on the Third Fleet
First Fleet Online Research for beginners Databases Letters and diary extracts	Convict Central A guide to researching your convict ancestors	Convicts and European Settlement of Australia An introduction
Convicts of The First Fleet Lesson Plan	Search for a Convict Find the crime and the sentence	Our First Fleet Information, databases and worksheets
First Fleet Fellowship Background, ships, provisions	National Library Online Images Search for keywords	The Convicts General Information
	The Intolerable Hulks British Shipboard Confinement 1776 - 1857	Port Arthur The Tasmanian prison
The First Australia Day	The Founders of a Nation The story of the First Fleet
British Colonisation of Australia Resources From the NSW Board of Studies	ACT Library Pathfinder Find your own resources at the library or online
	Pictures of the Early Years

Perth Mint School Projects Area The story of gold in Australia	Australian Gold Virtual museum of graphics and documents
GOLD 150 Documents, articles, graphics and links	Gold, Gold, Gold Online Discovery Activity
Eureka ~ Journals of a Gold Rush Online Discovery Activity	Sovereign Hill Education Service Research notes & student activities Teacher resources & education programs
Life on the goldfields Virtual exhibition of paintings	The Eureka Stockade Map Timeline Newspaper articles Bibliography
Eureka Stockade The Eureka Story History of Ballarat RealTime video Eureka Stockade Centre	The Bushranger Site Introduction Poetry and Songs Profiles FAQ Student Activities Bibliography
Danny the Dredger's Prospecting Page History Australian Goldfields Panning for Gold	Bushrangers of Victoria Introduction Ben Hall Ned Kelly
The Science of Gold Gold ~ the metal Tools and Equipment	The Dictionary Of Australian Bushrangers Database of 1200 bushrangers
The Gold Rush in Victoria Annotated bibliography of print and electronic resources	Australia's Famous Bushrangers More than just Ned Kelly

National Council for the Centenary of Federation Background and Timeline of the Nation Resource Library FAQ Activities	National Archives of Australia Comprehensive background information Online guide to official records Photos and Gallery
Prime Ministers of Australia Days, dates and details	Federation - the land, the people, the nation Teachers' notes to accompany the ABC video "Federation"
Centenary of Federation The Lead-up	Centenary of Federation 2001, NSW The New South Wales Experience
Centenary of Federation, Victoria The Victorian Experience	Centenary of Federation, S.A. The South Australian Experience
Centenary of Federation, A.C.T. The National Capital Experience	Centenary of Federation, Queensland The Queensland Experience
Federation Fast Facts Background	Documenting a Democracy - Australia's story The nation's birth certificates
Federation Gateway National Library of Australia	Resources for Federation From CMIS, W.A.
Australian Federation 2001 A set of study materials for Years 7-10 Australian History from NSW Board of Studies	Federation 100 - A Celebration of 100 years of nationhood Victorian Department of Education
Teaching Heritage A timeline of events since 1901	Federation and Centenary Celebrations Classroom activities from the Curriculum Corporation
Focus on Federation From schools in the Ararat area, Victoria	The Australian Federation Full Text Database Transcripts of the papers and debates
Federation Exhibition From the National Gallery of Australia	Federation Play Kit Federation with a twist
Federation WebQuests	The Federation Page

The Australian War Memorial Access photos, artworks, films, books,private records, official records, sound recordings, databases and the Roll of Honour	ANZACs in Gallipolii Ataturk's Memorial Speech History of Gallipoli Spirit of ANZAC
The Australian and NZ Victoria Cross Web Site Complete listings for both countries	Australian History Databases Gallipoli 75 Diaries Dispatches from Gallipoli
World War I - Trenches on the Web An Internet history of the Great War	Birds Down Under A search for 'ANZAC' provides history, poems, music, photographs and diaries
The Great War Comprehensive background site	The Spirit of ANZAC The Palmerston Pages

A Parallel History of Australian and the World	Documenting a Democracy	Australian History Timeline
Australian History Timelines	European Discovery and Settlement
An Historical Timeline	Cost of Living Calculator 1930-2004

Age of Discovery	Dutch Maritime Ventures	The Navigators
1606 Willem Janzoon	1607 Luis Vaez de Torres	1616 Dirk Hartog
1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman	1688 William Dampier	1788 Jean Francois La Perouse
	1770 James Cook Captain James Cook Cook's Journal 1768-1771 Portrait of Cook

History of Australian Exploration	19th Century Exploration of Australia	Crossing the Blue Mountains
George Bass	Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson	Robert O'Hara Bourke & William John Wills
Alfred Wernam Canning	Allan Cunningham	George Evans
Edward John Eyre Edward John Eyre	Matthew Flinders	Alexander Forrest
John Forrest	Ernest Giles	W. C.Gosse
A.C. & F. T. Gregory	George Grey	James Hobbs
Hamilton Hume & William Hovell	John, Frank & Alexander Jardine	Edmund Kennedy
William Landsborough	Thomas Laycock	Ludwig Leichardt
Edmund Lockyer	John McKinlay	Angus McMillan
Major Thomas Mitchell	John Oxley John Oxley	Henry Rice
J. S. Roe	James Stirling	Paul Strzelecki
John McDouall Stuart	Charles Sturt Charles Sturt	Frederick Walker
	Peter Warburton