{"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": 11, "years": 11, "span": [1618, 2020], "span_label": ["1618 CE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "dutch-east-india-company", "label": "Dutch East India Company", "shared": 3}, {"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": "south-australia", "label": "South Australia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "victoria-australia", "label": "Victoria (Australia)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tasmania", "label": "Tasmania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crown-colony", "label": "Crown colony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portsmouth", "label": "Portsmouth", "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": 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": 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": "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": 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": 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"}}]}