THE Australia Day timeline was compiled by historian Elizabeth Kwan, who wrote a history of Australia Day for the National Australia Day Council. Before 1770 - Aboriginal peoples had been living for more than 4
Human settlement of northern Australia begins; areas of Bathurst and Melville Islands probably a single land mass connected with mainland Australia. 15,000 years before the present Rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age ends cut off Bathurst and Melville Islands from mainland, and cr...
000 and 300,000 years ago,” says Eleanor Scerri, an archaeological scientist at theMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human Historyin Germany.
c. 1330 BCE—Egypt: Tutankhamun trumpets. A pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1341–c. 1323 BCE). The trumpets were found in 1922 by Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb (see below; public domain). LUR or ...
The advancements may have a: T echnical (hardware), C onceptual (software), or an O rganisational aspect, or represent an important M ilestone in the history of a given invention, and are annotated as such in the timeline. This document is only as good as the collated information itse...
In the Pacific region, the banana was domesticated nearly 7000 years ago in New Guinea, and anthropogenic soils in Australia may date to 3500 years ago [127]. Crops widely used for textiles, including cotton and flax, were domesticated early in several parts of the world. Agricultural terraces...