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this is the year i was bornEuropeans arrives with the first fleetFirst group of emigrants leave england for australia, including three farmers, a blacksmith, a gardener, a baker, a millwrite, two women and four childrenFrench prisoners of Napoleonic wars sent to NSW, where they established a vineyard.Governor Bligh proposes regulations aimed at encouraging Australia immigration.start of governor-assisted free migration. Land sold to fund migration schemes.the land and emigration commission established in Britain to help migration. Large-scale assisted female migration begins-most are working class.Periods
about 3000 Scots migrate, initially setting in Van Diemens Land. By the end of the decade, a third of all landowners in Van Diemens Land in NSW are scotish born
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