The first Englishman to come to Australia was explorer and pirate William Dampier, who reached the northwestern coast in 1688, and promptly dismissed the area as completely undesirable for habitation. He reRRed in 1699, but his opinion did not change.
In 1770 Lieutenant James Cook reached Australia and claimed it for Great Britain.
Australia was then colonised by British convicts and officers with the arrival of the First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
The First Fleet brought settlers to Australia on 26 January 1788. These were the convicts, officers and marines, and their families.
Captain Cook claimed the eastern seaboard of the Australian continent under the name of New South Wales in 1770. He charted the coastline between April and August of 1770.
The first English migrants to Australia were convicts, officers and marines (and their families), who arrived with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
The church of England came with the first settlers as they were English'
No, the settlers bought pigs over with them. No animals with hooves were in Australia before the English settlers.
The first settlers arrived in Australia during Australia's mid-Summer.
The South Australian Colonisation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1834, and the first settlers arrived in 1836. South Australia is the only state in Australia not to have been founded by convicts. Governor John Hindmarsh arrived in the new colony on the HMS Buffalo, accompanied only by free settlers, who were English.
The first settlers in Australia usually came from an English background.
All of the states in Australia are first settled by English settlers in one form or another - either as convicts, military or free settlers. New South Wales was the first state to be settled.
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"Convict" in relation to Australia means one of that group of English or Irish prisoners who was sent to one of the colonies in Australia between 1788 and 1867, rather than spending their time in an English prison. The convicts were the colonial settlers of Australia, along with the free settlers and officers.
Ships that brought settlers to Australia also brought cattle with them. So cattle were shipped to Australia overseas.
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The first recorded Englishman to come to South Australia was Matthew Flinders, who explored the coastline in 1802. Following the successful journey of explorer Charles Sturt, who charted the Murray River through South Australia in 1829-30, the South Australian Colonisation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1834, and the first settlers arrived in 1836. South Australia is the only state in Australia not to have been founded by convicts. Governor John Hindmarsh arrived in the new colony on the HMS Buffalo, accompanied only by free settlers, and these were English.