Convicts were first transported to Australia's eastern coast in 1788.
Yes. Australia Day is held on 26 January every year. It commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet of British convicts and officers in Australia, in 1788.
The transportation of convicts to Austalia continued for many decades. The First Fleet of convicts to Australia departed England in May 1787, and arrived in New South Wales in January 1788. Transportation of convicts to Australia ended when the last convict ship left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Australia on 10 January 1868. This ship, the "Hougoumont", brought its final cargo of 269 convicts to Western Australia, as New South Wales had abolished transportation of convicts in 1840.
Cascade brewery in Tasmania, year not know but it was from the time of the convicts
White settlement in Australia commenced in 1788, with the arrival of the First Fleet.
Transportation of convicts to Australia ended when the last convict ship left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Australia on 10 January 1868. This ship, the "Hougoumont", brought its final cargo of 269 convicts to Western Australia, as New South Wales had abolished transportation of convicts in 1840.
Christmas in Australia began in e first year of European settlement. Australia was settled by the British, so Christmas was a tradition that came with the First Fleet which was made up of convicts, marines and officers. The First Fleet arrived in Australia in January 1788. The first Christmas on Australian soil was celebrated on 25 December 1788, with a service conducted by Reverend Johnson, who was aboard the First Fleet. Following the service, Governor Arthur Phillip and his officers had a proper Christmas dinner, during which they toasted King George lll and his family. The convicts, however, had no change in their own rations.
It came on the feb 1788
It wasn't a good life for the convicts because all they did was work all day only got 1 pair of new clothes a year got food once a day had no shoes their feet were swollen .
Australia Day did and still does celebrate the landing of the First Fleet of convicts, soldiers and officers in Australia in 1788. It celebrates the raising of the British flag upon Australian soil with the arrival of the first settlers in New South Wales.
The First Fleet, consisting of British convicts and soldiers, arrived in Sydney on January 26th 1788. This day is commemorated each year as 'Australia Day.'
As near as can be determined from records, it is believed that a total of around 162,000 convicts came to Australia, from the time of the First Fleet in 1788 until the cessation of transportation with the final shipload of convicts to Western Australia in 1868.