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The first Italian to arrive and settle in Australia was convict Giuseppe Tuzo, who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788.
The first European settlers to arrive in Australia were convicts from England, guarded by a large number of marines and officers.
The first official settlers or "immigrants" to Australia arrive in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788.
Captain James Cook was not a convict. Convicts did not arrive in Australia until 18 years after Cook first charted the east coast.
Oral tradition states that the first Greek in Australia was a convict named Damianos Gikas who arrived in 1802, but there are no written records to confirm this. The first Greeks actually documented to arrive in Australia were a group of 7 men from Hydra who were convicted of being pirates: they arrived in Australia in 1828.
South Australia, Western Australia (Swan River) and Victoria (Port Phillip) all did not start as convict colonies.While South Australia always remained convict-free, the settlers of the Swan River colony asked for convicts because they claimed there was the need for convict labour. The first convicts arrived about 15 years after the colony was founded.The Port Phillip District (Victoria) was established by free settlers who were joined by ex-convicts from Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales.
Convict labour was introduced in Australia with the first European settlement. This occurred with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. Convicts were assigned to work parties, whether they be the road gangs, constructing buildings or as helpers to the free settlers establishing farms.
The very first European settlers in Australia (not including the Aborigines who were the first inhabitants) were a mix of convicts, officers and marines and their families, all of whom came from Britain.The next group of convicts and settlers to arrive also included some Irish. Gradually, migrants from other European countries began to arrive.
Australia's first European settlers arrived in Australia on 26 January 1788. These early seetlers were primarily convicts from England, together with the officers and marines sent with them to help keep order and establish the new colony.
1609, is the year that the first settlers arrived in Bermuda.
British criminal classes. Sydney was the site of Australia's first settlement, but while it was clearly established as a convict colony, there were also numerous free settlers in the First Fleet.
The first settlers to arrive at Plymouth were looking for a place where they could preserve their culture and worship freely.