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AUSTRALIAN TIMELINE

The following, highly selective chronology should be read in tandem with the critical reservations about canonicity
and historical sequence that are expressed at various stages of this book. The chronology is an attempt, deeply
indebted to such reliable sources as the Oxford Literary History of Australia (1998) and the Cambridge Companion
to Australian Literature (2000), to provide what the latter calls, and I can only repeat here, ‘a basic framework
of dates in Australian history, together with major literary and cultural events, and selected publications of
particular historical or literary significance’ (Webby 2000: xi).

40,000 bc Earliest evidence to date of Aboriginal peoples living in Australia

20,000 bc Earliest evidence to date of Aboriginal rock art
1616 First recorded European landing (Dirk Hartog)
1642 Landing of Abel Tasman (Blackman’s Bay, Van Diemen’s Land)
1703 William Dampier, A Voyage to New Holland in the Year 1699
1770 Landing of James Cook (Botany Bay); New South Wales claimed for Britain
1788 Arrival of First Fleet; establishment of penal settlement at Sydney
1789 Watkin Tench, A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
1819 Barron Field, First Fruits of Australian Poetry
1833 Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia
1845 Charles Harpur, Thoughts: A Series of Sonnets; James Tucker, The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh
1851 Gold discovered in New South Wales and Victoria
1854 Unsuccessful miners’ revolt at Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Victoria); Catherine Helen Spence, Clara Morison
1859 Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn
1869 Henry Kendall, Leaves from Australian Forests
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1870 Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes

1874 Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life
1880 Ned Kelly captured and hanged; The Bulletin established (still running)
1887 Ada Cambridge, Unspoken Thoughts
1888 Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms
1893 Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker
1894 Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse
1895 A.B. Paterson, The Man From Snowy River
1901 Australia becomes a Federation; Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
1902 Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies
1913 Christopher Brennan, Poems
1915 Allied forces land at Gallipoli (Turkey) on 25 April, now Anzac Day
1929 Katharine Susannah Prichard, Coonardoo; David Unaipon, Native Legends
1930 Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
1938 Xavier Herbert, Capricornia
1939 Kenneth Slessor, Five Bells
1940 Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
1941 Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land
1944 Ern Malley hoax
1945 Australian Book Council established in Sydney
1946 Judith Wright, The Moving Image
1947 European migration programme begins
1954 Vance Palmer, The Legend of the Nineties
(Contd.)
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AUSTRALIAN TIMELINE (Contd.)

1955 First full-year course in Australian Literature (Canberra); A.D. Hope, The Wandering Islands; Ray Lawler,
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1957 Patrick White, Voss
1962 First Chair of Australian Literature (University of Sydney)
1964 Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), We Are Going
1967 Aboriginal Australians recognized as Australian citizens
1969 Bruce Dawe, Beyond the Subdivisions
1970 Multiculturalism on the political agenda
1971 James McAuley, Collected Poems
1972 Withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam
1973 Patrick White wins Nobel Prize for Literature; end of White Australia policy
1975 John Romeril, The Floating World
1977 Association for the Study of Australian Literature founded
1978 Christopher Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously
1979 Brian Elliott, The Jindyworobaks
1982 Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic
1983 Brian Castro, Birds of Passage; Mudrooroo, Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
1985 Jack Davis, No Sugar
1987 Sally Morgan, My Place
1988 Bicentenary celebrations (accompanied by Aboriginal protests); Kate Grenville, Joan Makes History
1991 Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
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1992 Mabo land rights ruling

1993 David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
1994 Helen Demidenko, The Hand that Signed the Paper
1995 David Williamson, Dead White Males
1997 Bringing Them Home Report (on the Stolen Generations)
1998 Oxford Literary History of Australia
1999 Republic referendum; Kim Scott, Benang
2000 Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2001 Tampa crisis; Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish
2005 Cronulla riots; Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe
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