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Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay...

Timeline of Events

1770

4.29.1770

James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

1788

1.18.1788

The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

1.19.1788

The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.

1.20.1788

The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.