First Fleet arrives in Australia

Name: First Fleet arrives in Australia
Start: 1788
Location: Sydney Cove

1788 · Sydney Cove · Oceania · Exploration

Ships of convicts begin the British settlement of Australia

Eleven British ships under Captain Arthur Phillip brought over a thousand people, mostly convicts, to Sydney Cove. The colony of New South Wales, founded on 26 January, began the British colonisation of Australia.

State: British Colonial Empire, British Empire

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