Swan River Colony founded
The first settlers of Western Australia — and future Perth
In 1829 Captain James Stirling founded the first British colony in western Australia on the Swan River, where Perth and Fremantle grew up. It grew slowly: short of labour, it began taking convicts in 1850, just as eastern Australia was giving them up.
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- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 15 years earlier
- 1830 July Revolution — 1 year later
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Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 22 years earlier
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Middle East
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Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 14 years earlier
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Americas
- 1821 Mexican independence — 8 years earlier
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 80)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 46)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 30)
- Charles Darwin (aged 20)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 20)
- Karl Marx (aged 11)
- Queen Victoria (aged 10)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 8)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 1)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 69)