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| 1 | 1605 | - 1605: Pedro de Quiros coins the name Austrialia and reported on 'Terra Australis'.
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| 2 | 1606 | - 1606: First documented landing by Europeans in Australia - Dutch, William Janszoon. (Duyfken)
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| 3 | 1609 | - 1609: Galileo built a telescope with which he discovered the mountains on the moon, that the Milky Way consisted of innumerable stars, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and sunspots.
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| 4 | 1616 | - 1616: Dirk Hartog makes the first confirmed landing on West Australian soil. (Eendracht)
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| 5 | 1642 | - 1642: Abel Tasman discovers VanDiemen's Land (Tasmania)
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| 6 | 1665 | - 1665: The Great Plague of London was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England killing an estimated 100,000 people, about 20% of London's population.
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1598 - 1665 (67 years)