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Timeline - General
26 April 1606
Dutch Capt Willem Jansz on board Duyfken visited far north Queensland and charted some 300 km of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula.
14 May 1606
Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, having discovered what he believed to be the great south land, claimed it for Spain and named it "Austrialia del Espiritu Santo".
1-9 October 1606
Luis Vaez De Torres sails through the Torres Strait.
1616
Dutchman, Dirk Hartog, landed in Western Australia.
1618
Haevik Claes sailed the Zeewolf past the North West Cape.
Lenaert Jacobs sails the Mauritius along the North West Cape.
1619
Frederik de Houtman charts south west coast of Western Australia.
1623
Jan Carstensz sails along Cape York Peninsula.
Claes Hermans in the Leijden lands south of Dirk Hartog Island in Western Australia.
1627
Pieter Nuyts charts the southern coast.
1628
Gerrit De Witt maps 370 kms of the coastline of Western Australia.
1629
Fransisco Pelsaert wrecks the Batavia on the De Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
1636
Piet Pieters charts the Gulf of Carpentaria.
1642
Dutchman, Abel Tasman, first to circumnavigate Australia, landed in Tasmania (naming it Antonio Van Diemensland) and claims it for Holland.
1644
Abel Tasman charts the north coast of Australia.
1658
Samual Volckersen in the De Waekende Boey land on Rottnest Island and the main land. His artist makes the first European pictorials of Australia.
1681
Englishman Captain Daniel sails the London around the De Houtman Abrolhos Islands and makes the first description of part of Australia in English and the first map of part of Australia in English.
1687
Captain Duquesne-Guitton in the L’Oiseau and sights the WA coast and sails close to the Swan River in the first recorded French contact with Australia.
1699
William Dampier in the Roebuck, names Shark Bay on the Western Australian Coast and lands on Dirk Hartog Island.
1704
Maarten Van Delft charts the coast of Arnhem Land in the Nieuw Holland and records extensive contacts with locals.
28 April 1770
Captain Cook raises a British flag and claims part of the east coast of Australia for Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772
Francois-Alesno de St Alouarn sailed from Cape Leeuwin to north of Shark Bay where be buried an Act of Possession claiming the west coast of New Holland for France.
1788
First Fleet lands at Botany Bay (18 January), Camp Cove (22 January) and Sydney Cove (23 January).
1788
Jean-Francois Galaup Compte de La Pérouse sails La Boussola and L’Astrolabe into Botany Bay and lands there as the First Fleet is moving to Sydney Cove.
1793
Capt Alexandro Malaspina, Spanish Royal Navy, visited Botany Bay.
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