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Not many nations can remember their own birthday; in Australia's case, it is 1 January 1901, the first day of the twentieth century. So it's perhaps not surprising that many visitors to the Antipodes express wonder that Australia has a history at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCertainly, it's a short chronology by European standards—a little over 200 years ago, the First Fleet deposited its white cargo on the fatal shores of Port Jackson. Yet, we are not the shortest-lived nation in the Commonwealth by a long shot. When we take into account the First Australians, we have perhaps the longest history of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe events that changed Australian history are iconic, character-building, and cataclysmic—the Boer War, Gallipoli, and Kokoda. They can also be as seemingly flippant as the introduction of surfing, cricketers bowling a dangerous high bouncing ball, and the death of a racehorse. 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