1750-1914 events

By mc cherp

  • James Cook claims Australia for Britain

    James Cook charted the East Coast of Australia[4] for Britain and returned with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay (now in Sydney), New South Wales.

  • outbreak off the french revolution

    outbreak of the french revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling aristocrats who levied high taxes to support extavagant lifestyles.

  • first passanger railway

    george stephenson builds the first passenger railway between liverpool and manchester

  • publication of the peoples character in britain

    publication of the peoples character in britain demanding political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21

  • finds gold rush near bathurst

    Edward hargraves find first gold rush near bathurst triggering several gold rushes around australia.

  • convict transport to australia

    convict transport to australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in western austalia.

  • light bulb invention

    The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours.

  • first controled flight

    brother orvile and wilbur wright acheive the first controlled, powered, man-carrying flight.

  • Henry Ford makes firts T model automobile

    Henry Ford makes firts T model automobile
    henry ford produces his first ford model T automobile

  • titanic hits iceburg

    titanic hits iceburg
    the worlds then largest passenger steamship, the titanic, hits an iceburg in the north west atlantic ocean and sinks; 1517 people die.

  • publication of the peoples charter in britain

  • invention of the etomic bomb

    In 1939, Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the Manhattan Project, whose research produced the first atomic bomb.