Not a lot. The Dutch and Portuguese had decided the continent was not worth settling, and Englishman William Dampier's reports were much the same. Captain James Cook had not yet come across the fertile eastern coast. Therefore, in 1750, the indigenous people were engaging in their healthy, traditional lifestyles without external interference.
1851 marked the start of the Australian goldrush. Gold was found by Edward Hargraves, with a great deal of assistance from John Lister, in the Bathurst region of New Douth Wales, specifically, Ophir. This occurred in New South Wales in May, and a few months later in Victoria, during August.
1788 marked the arrival in New South Wales of the First Fleet of British convicts, together with officers, marines and a few free settlers. This was the beginning of permanent European settlement in Australia.
1770 was the year that Lieutenant James Cook (later Captain Cook) became the first European to land on and chart Australia's eastern coastline. He did not discover Australia, but he is credited with giving the eastern side a glowing report which was enough to convince the British authorities to establish a penal settlement here.
British colonisation of Australia began in 1788.
It came on the feb 1788
Governor Arthur Phillip landed in Australia on 26 January 1788.
from WikiPedia:Catholicism arrived in Australia with the British First Fleet in 1788. The first Australian Catholics were mainly Irish.
It became the eleventh US State in 1788.
Their bicentenary, seeing Australia's colonisation was in 1788.
White settlement in Australia commenced in 1788, with the arrival of the First Fleet.
British colonisation of Australia began in 1788.
Christianity arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788.
Convicts first arrived in Australia in January 1788.
It was unloaded with the first fleet in 1788.
In Maddytown, in the year 1788.
It came on the feb 1788
Governor Arthur Phillip landed in Australia on 26 January 1788.
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.'
Western Australia was known as New Holland in 1788.
Pretty much once the British colonized the place in 1788