FACTBOX: History of Australia's Aborigines http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSYD34010520080213?sp=true
Wed Feb 13, 2008
(Reuters) - Key dates, facts in the history of Australia's Aborigines.
* Carbon dating of rock paintings suggests Aborigines have been living in Australia for at least 40,000 years.
* 1770 - English explorer James Cook charts the east coast of Australia and claims it for Britain as an empty land, despite the existence of 315,000 to one million Aborigines. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSYD34010520080213?sp=true