{"slug": "western-australia", "label": "Western Australia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3206", "qid": "Q3206", "description": "state of Australia", "entries": 25, "years": 24, "span": [1618, 2020], "span_label": ["1618 CE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 9}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Western Australian"], "related": [{"slug": "dutch-east-india-company", "label": "Dutch East India Company", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "victoria-state", "label": "Victoria (state)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "indigenous-australians", "label": "Indigenous Australians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "indonesia", "label": "Indonesia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "prime-minister-of-australia", "label": "Prime Minister of Australia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "australia", "label": "Australia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-south-wales", "label": "New South Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "queensland", "label": "Queensland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-australia", "label": "South Australia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tasmania", "label": "Tasmania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crown-colony", "label": "Crown colony", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1618, "year_label": "1618 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Lenaert Jacobszoon and the crew of the Dutch East India Company ship Mauritius become the first Europeans to sight what is now the Australian state of Western Australia, landing at the North Cape.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365216026#July–September", "title": "1618", "revid": 1365216026, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1629, "year_label": "1629 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – In what is now the state of Western Australia, administered at the time by the Dutch East India Company, seven members of the crew of the Batavia are hanged on the Abrolhos Islands for their massacre of 125 passengers and crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365103352#October–December", "title": "1629", "revid": 1365103352, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1699, "year_label": "1699 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia), in HMS Roebuck, reaches Dirk Hartog Island, at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia, and he begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560904#July–September", "title": "1699", "revid": 1369560904, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – The Dutch East India Company trading ship Zuytdorp leaves the Netherlands on an ill-fated voyage to Indonesia bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins. The wreck site remains unknown until the mid-20th century, on a remote part of the Western Australian coast between Kalbarri and Shark Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364260988#July–September", "title": "1711", "revid": 1364260988, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The VOC Zuytdorp is wrecked off the coast of Western Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#Date_unknown", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1791, "year_label": "1791 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 29", "text": "29 September – The West Coast of Australia is claimed by British Commander George Vancouver when he sailed into King George Sound, previously only the east coast had been claimed for the Crown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374051143#Events", "title": "1791 in Australia", "revid": 1374051143, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1829, "year_label": "1829 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 8", "text": "8 June – Captain James Stirling founds the Swan River Colony in Western Australia, landing at Garden Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374055463#Events", "title": "1829 in Australia", "revid": 1374055463, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1832, "year_label": "1832 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370617764#January–March", "title": "1832", "revid": 1370617764, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1834, "year_label": "1834 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 28", "text": "28 October – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1310878051#Events", "title": "1834 in Australia", "revid": 1310878051, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1837, "year_label": "1837 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 10", "text": "10 June - The first whale is caught in Western Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354294378#Events", "title": "1837 in Australia", "revid": 1354294378, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1861, "year_label": "1861 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 6", "text": "6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360471368#Events", "title": "1861 in Australia", "revid": 1360471368, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – End of penal transportation from Britain as the last convict ship, the Hougoumont, departs from Portsmouth on an 89-day passage to Western Australia. 62 Fenians are among the transportees.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#October", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 9", "text": "9 January – penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends with arrival of the convict ship Hougoumont in Western Australia after an 89-day voyage from England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309144088#Events", "title": "1868 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1309144088, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February", "text": "The Flying Foam massacre, a massacre of Indigenous Australians around Flying Foam Passage in Western Australia by white colonial settlers begins and lasts until May.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#February", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Excavation begins on the water supply tunnels beneath Fremantle Prison, in Western Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1310479639#Undated", "title": "1888 in Australia", "revid": 1310479639, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1894, "year_label": "1894 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January", "text": "January - A cyclone hits the north west of Western Australia, killing approximately 50 persons", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1297034104#Events", "title": "1894 in Australia", "revid": 1297034104, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister of Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#January", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March", "text": "March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#March", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1946, "year_label": "1946 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 1", "text": "1 May – At least 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374055630#Events", "title": "1946 in Australia", "revid": 1374055630, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 30", "text": "30 November – Lang Hancock discovers the world's largest deposit of iron ore in the Hamersley Range of Western Australia's Pilbara region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368154525#Events", "title": "1952 in Australia", "revid": 1368154525, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 4", "text": "4 December – Oil is discovered in the Exmouth Gulf off the coast of Western Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321727252#Events", "title": "1953 in Australia", "revid": 1321727252, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 20", "text": "20 January to early March – Disastrous bushfires affect Western Australia, completely destroying a number of towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356765940#Events", "title": "1961 in Australia", "revid": 1356765940, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 31", "text": "31 December – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes south of Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339796968#Events", "title": "1968 in Australia", "revid": 1339796968, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – Thomas Playford IV, 84, Australian politician, he was a member of the politically prominent Playford family, he served as the Premier of South Australia from 1938 until 1965, he had the longest tenure in office for a state or territory leader in Australian history; remaining in power for almost 27 years,his economic policies favored industrialization and economic growth, when Playford left office in 1965, South Australia's population had doubled from 600,000 in the late 1930s to 1.1 million, the highest proportionate rate among the states; the state'seconomy had done likewise, and personal wealth had increased at the same rate, second only to Victoria, during Playford's 27 years in power, employment in manufacturing in South Australia had increased by 173%; Western Australia was in second place with 155% growth, while the national average was during the period was 129%, heart attack. Playford had received medical treatment for heart disease since his first heart attack in June 1971", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350244288", "title": "Deaths in June 1981", "revid": 1350244288, "section": "Deaths › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – Mining corporation Rio Tinto admits to blowing up the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge caves in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. The firm later issues an apology to the two Aboriginal peoples who are the traditional owners of the site.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#May", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › May"}}]}