The ACHS Timeline highlights key events in Australian Catholic history. It is divided into three eras: 40,000BC - 1840, which sees the transition from indigenous to colonial Australia and the foundation of Catholicism here; the era 1841 - 1900, when gold rushes and pastoral development brought
a burgeoning Catholic population; and the period from Federation, 1901-1995, with milestones such as the 1928 Eucharistic Congress, the first visit of a Pope to Australia, and the declaring blessed of
Mary MacKillop.
We would like to expand and extend this time-line so that it becomes a useful source of reference for Australian Catholic history. If you would like to suggest further items
(or even corrections) for the Timeline, please address them to;
ACHS Website Monitor
PO Box A621
Sydney South, NSW, 1235
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