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Australia was colonised with the arrival of the First Fleet from Britain, on 26 January 1788.

The convicts and officers of the First Fleet arrived at the location they were meant to settle, botany Bay, on 18 January 1788. However, due to the bay not being as promising as they had been led to believe, they travelled north 8 km and settled in Port Jackson, arriving there and raising the British flag on 26 January 1788. This is the official start of the colonisation of Australia.

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