Marked Sydney Cove

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Botany Bay and colonial Australia

In 1788 the First Fleet brought convicts from Britain to Sydney Cove, in the country of the Gadigal people. About 162,000 convicts were transported, and settlers spread across a land that was already home to hundreds of Aboriginal nations, at a terrible cost to them.

Place
Sydney Cove · Port Arthur · Myall Creek · BallaratOceania, Europe
Laid out as
A migrationPeople on the move: where they set out from, where they went, and what they found.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

From Sydney Coveto Ballarat

  1. IThe First Fleet
  2. IIConvict life
  3. IIIBennelong and Pemulwuy
  4. IVThe frontier wars
  5. VGold rushes
  6. VIFederation, 1901

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Arthur Phillip
  • Bennelong
  • Pemulwuy
  • Truganini
  • Mary Reibey

Objects

  • Convict love tokens
  • Records of the First Fleet

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1788 to 1901. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?