in 1770 Captain James Cook arrived at coast of Australia and claimed the land as the „British Colony of New South Wales“ for the British Empire
- reason why the Britains wanted to build up new colonies was because Britain‘s prisons were overcrowded - first British settlers arrived in 1788 at Port Jackson - most of them from London - The settlement was named “Sydney“ (name was given by Viscount Sydney, the highest colonial official of Australiaใ