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{{History of Australia}}
The '''history of Australia from 1788 to 1850''' covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the [[First Fleet]] of British ships at
After several years of privation, the penal colony gradually expanded and developed an economy based on farming, fishing, whaling, trade with incoming ships, and construction using convict labour. By 1820, however, British settlement was largely confined to a 100 kilometre radius around [[Sydney]] and to the central plain of [[Van Diemen's Land|Van Diemen's land]]. From 1816 [[penal transportation]] to Australia increased rapidly and the number of free settlers grew steadily. Van Diemen's Land became a separate colony in 1825, and free settlements were established at the [[Swan River Colony]] in Western Australia (1829), the [[British colonisation of South Australia|Province of South Australia]] (1836), and in the [[Port Phillip District|Port Philip District]] (1836). The grazing of cattle and sheep expanded inland, leading to increasing conflict with Aboriginal people on their traditional lands.
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