Tasman travel bubble resumes between Western Australia & New Zealand [Covid-19]

Flights from Western Australian to New Zealand paused for 24 hours. [Covid-19]

New Zealand resumes quarantine-free travel with Western Australia. [Covid-19]

Travel between New Zealand and Western Australia is suspended following a 3 day lockdown in the metropolitan area of Perth. [Covid-19]

The Western Australian state election is held with the incumbent McGowan Labor government winning with a large majority.

The Western Australian Government announced the state would move into "Phase 4", permitting some of the most relaxed Covid-19 restrictions in the country

Rio Tinto blows up the Juukan Gorge, a region inhabited by Australian Aborigines for 46,000 years, to expand an iron ore mine

Perth Airport blocks runways with bulldozers to pressure Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd to pay its $16 million debt

Western Australia closed their borders, with all interstate arrivals being required to self-isolate for 14 days [Covid-19]

The Matagurup Refugee Camp is founded in Perth to defend Aboriginal Rights

Peter Brock, an Australian motor racing driver, was killed in an accident on the Targa West road rally

WA Labor Government of Dr Geoff Gallop is returned with a solid majority

Plastic surgeon and burns specialist Dr Fiona Wood named Australian of the Year

The last train to use the Bunbury railway station departed.

Australian banks nationalized.

The Old Bunbury railway station, which served as the terminal for the Australind passenger train to Perth, transported its first passengers.

Completion of line linking Western Australia with the Eastern States.

Federation of Australia, with Western Australia becoming one of the founding states

Cyclone strikes pearling fleet at Eighty Mile Beach near Broome claiming 140 lives. The storm was unexpected, being so late in the season.

WAs first Legislative Council meets

Representative Government is granted to WA

The Battle of Pinjarra takes place in the Peel region, a significant conflict between European settlers and the Indigenous Noongar people

Administration of King George Sound passes to Swan River Colony, convicts returned to New South Wales.

Founding of Perth, Western Australia

Colony of Western Australia established at Perth by Captain James Stirling. The British Government agreed to found the colony as the first free settlement in Australia.

Colonists first sighted land. The first significant European settlements were established on the Swan River by James Stirling.

Captain Charles Fremantle declared the Swan River Colony (Western Australia) for Britain

New South Wales established first settlement in Western Australia at King George Sound as a convict-supported military garrison, named Frederick Town but renamed Albany in 1832.

Captain Matthew Flinders reached and named Cape Leeuwin and proceeded to make a survey along the southern coast of the Australian mainland.

A well-armed party landed near the present-day Cottesloe Beach & marched eastward to the Swan River near Freshwater Bay

Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh charted the southwestern coast of Australia, making a landfall at Rottnest Island.

English explorer William Dampier explored the West Coast of Australia making many discoveries, before later being court-martialled for cruelty.

English navigator John Daniel on the New London charts the WA coast, including Rottnest Island & the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos

The Vergulde Draeck strikes a submerged coral reef midway between Seabird & Ledge Point, WA. Of the 193 crew, 118 are believed to have perished

First European structure in Australia – Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West Wallabi Island

VOC ship Batavia wrecks on Houtman Abrolhos, off Geraldton. Mutiny ensues and at least 110 men, women, and children are murdered

François Thijssen came upon the most south-west tip of Australia, near Cape Leeuwin

First European child in Australia is born. Seebaer van Nieuwelant, son of Willemtgen and Willem Janszoon, is born south of Dirk Hartog Island, in present-day Western Australia

The Tryall, under the command of John Brooke, was wrecked on the Tryal Rocks off the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1622. Her crew were the first Englishmen to sight or land on Australia. The wreck is Australia's oldest known shipwreck.

VOC ship Mauritius under command of Supercargo Willem Janszoon, lands near North West Cape, near the modern town of Exmouth

Dirk Hartog, commanding the Eendracht, made history as the first European to land in Western Australia, leaving a recording of his voyage on a pewter plate.