Timelines...

DATE	WESTERN AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	THE WORLD
	Aboriginal settlement in Australia occurred over 60 000 years ago.
	Dutch exploration of the west coast of Australia in the 1600s
1770		Captain James Cook explores the east coast of Australia
1788		First Fleet arrives with convicts & military guards at Sydney Cove on 26 January Norfolk Island becomes a penal settlement (1788 - 1856)
1789		The mutiny on the Bounty
1797		The first sheep introduced into Australia
1801		Matthew Flinders sails around Australia
1803		Penal and agriculture settlement established in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1827	James Stirling explores the Swan River
1829	Capt James Stirling arrives in Cockburn Sound with new settlers aboard hired transports Parmelia & HMS Sulphur on 1 June new colony established when special proclamation read on Garden Island & on mainland on 18 June Capt. James Stirling, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia (1829-1832) Fremantle at mouth of Swan River named & declared to be colony’s chief port Perth, 12 miles up-river, founded as capital of colony on 12th August at ceremony below Mt. Eliza		Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ wins Liverpool to Manchester railway locomotive competition. Birth of steam railway era
1830	colony’s population about 1500 by end of this year	Port Arthur Penal settlement established	World population reaches 1 billion people (2.3 billion 1n 1950; 5.4 billion in 1992; & 6 billion in 1999)
1831	Round House built – served as place of detention, court house, & place of execution; first public building in WA
1833			Steel plow developed in England
1834	‘Battle of Pinjarra’ in which an official expedition led by Governor Stirling shot & killed about a dozen tribal Aborigines in retaliation for thefts & murders alleged to have been committed by them first duel fought in colony with Surgeon in attendance
1836		South Australia settles as a free colony
1837			Coronation of Queen Victoria In England W. Cooke & C. Wheatstone develop first electric telegraph
1838	John Hutt appointed Governor of Western Australia (1838-1846)
1839	Henry Vincent appointed Superintendent of Native Establishment on Rottnest Island
1841	Western Australian Bank opened
1842	Juveniles of both sexes sent from Parkhurst Prison Reformatory on Isle of Wight (UK) to work in Western Australia on farms & in households	Sydney proclaimed a city	Webster-Ashburton Treaty (U.S.A. & Britain) defines Canadian border with U.S.A. (Edmund Henderson - later Comptroller General of Convicts, Fremantle - is involved with this)
1844	John Gavin, 15 year-old, found guilty of murder & hanged publicly in front of Round House, Fremantle on 6 April was buried without ceremony in sand hills to south, gaining dubious distinction of being first European legally executed in colony
1846	Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke appointed Governor of Western Australia (1846-1847) at New Norcia, Spanish Benedictine monks began their missionary work amongst Aborigines of region		Famine in Ireland caused by, amongst other things, widespread failure of crops
1848	Capt. Charles Fitzgerald appointed governor of Western Australia (1848-1855) official Census shows population reaching 4622		Gold discovered in California
1849	Governor Fitzgerald advises British Government he has received a petition from settlers requesting convicts be sent to colony to provide much needed labour force. An Order in Council signed in London on 1st May making this possible WA population - 4, 622 (excluding Aboriginal people)