This is a timeline of environmental history of Australia. These events relate to the more notable events affecting the natural environment of Australia including as a result of human activity.
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Pre 1700s
edit60000 BC — Arrival of Aboriginals, Indigenous Australians, from Africa.
Aboriginals use of fire results in limiting the types of plants in many locations to those that can survive or germinate after fire. [1]
1700s
edit1770 - Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist, arrives in Australia with (then) Lieutenant James Cook on the HMS Endeavour. While they were in Australia Banks, the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and the Finnish botanist Dr. Herman Spöring Jr. made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science. Almost 800 specimens were illustrated by the artist Sydney Parkinson and appear in Banks' Florilegium, finally published in 35 volumes between 1980 and 1990.
1788 - First fleet arrives with 18 turkeys, 29 geese, 35 ducks, 122 fowls, 87 chickens, kittens, puppies, 4 mares, 2 stallions, 4 cows, 1 bull, 1 bull calf, 44 sheep, 19 goats, 32 hogs, 5 rabbits, Gov. Phillip's greyhounds and Rev. John's cats and with plants and seeds: banana, cocoa, coffee, cotton, eugenia, guava, ipecacuanha, lemon, orange, prickly pear, Spanish reed, and tamarind [2]
1800s
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1830s
edit1840s
edit1860s
edit1870s
edit1880s
edit1890s
edit1900s
edit1920s
edit1930s
edit1940s
edit1950s
editAdd some information for gods sake...
1960s
edit1970s
edit1970
1980s
edit1980
1982
1990s
edit1990
1994
1998
2000s
edit2000
- 18 August
- 21 October
Other
edit(no dates established as yet.)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ http://asgap.org.au/APOL3/sep96-1.html Australian Native Plants Society
- ^ http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/list.htm First Fleet Fellowship