The first documented and undisputed European sighting of and landing on Australia was in March 1606, by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon.
The aboriginals had already been there for 30,000 years, but they were savages, so they didn't count as inhabitants.
The earliest known real civilizations that count were China and Egypt. The rest of the world was conquered during the next 5,000 years.
I mean immigrants peacefully branched out. |