Australian history
Down under's story
Australian history encompasses the human past of the Australian continent, from Indigenous habitation spanning at least 65,000 years through British colonization beginning in 1788 to the present.
The term often appears in debates about how to teach or commemorate contested events: frontier violence, the Stolen Generations, federation, world wars.
Australian history is finally being taught properly in schools.
- Stolen GenerationsRemoved Aboriginal children, historically
- convictJailed offender after trial
- CanberraAustralia's federal seat
- DreamtimeAboriginal mythological creation era
- FederationNamed union of states
founding fathers · boomerang · Van Diemen's Land · Aboriginal culture · Botany Bay · colonial era · Ned Kelly · Gold Rush · Gallipoli campaign · Prime Minister · Great Barrier Reef · Labor Party · reconciliation · British Empire · squatters · diggers · Eureka · goldfields
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
Australian historyBritish history
England's recorded past
European history · American history · Asian history · Chinese history · African history
Australian historyancient history
Study of earliest civilizations
classical antiquity · Egyptian history · Greek history · medieval history