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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was the period in which people were trying to send the message across that every human was born equal and which the same rights and that their rights should not be determined through their wealth status. It was the period in which people started believing in themselves and gained confidence to use their intelligence for good and educational reasons that could mark history. -
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Industrial Revolution
The Insudtrial Revolution was a period in history in which heavy machinery and technology began to form. This revolution is now considered a very exotic time of history, however living during the period created some difficulties for the people trying to earn a living to survive. Due to many jobs being replaced by these machines a large majority of people were sent to unemployment leaving them resulting in poverty. This created an increase in starvation and and crime rates. -
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Seven Years War
The seven years was was the last major conflict that involved all the great powers of Europe before the chaotic bloodbath that was the French revolution. The war was a fight over the power of the rich province of Silesia, which had been wrestled off of Austrian Habsburgs during the war of the Austrian Succession. -
The Invention of the Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invented the spinning jenny in 1764. The spinning jenny was the first improvement since the spinning wheel which allowed users to spin multiple balls of yarn or thread at the same time. It was a hand-powered machine that made weaving faster. -
Discovery of Australia
Captain James Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia on the 28th of April in 1770. Although there was already Aboriginals that knew of Australia, James Cook was the first to mark the discovery of Australia into history. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was when thirteen American colonies joined together to break from the British Empire and form the United States of America. At first this idea was rejected by the British Empire, but was out ruled and forced to go ahead anyway, The British then tried to send troops to regain their control, however America armed the conflict and Britain failed. -
First Fleet Arrival
On January 26th of the year 1788 a ship that had been travelling for eight months overseas from Europe arrived in Australia. The number of Europeans that arrived in Australia was not recorded as many people died throughout the journey, however it is said that there was at lead 1,350 that boarded the ship from Europe. A majority of them were convicts that were transported to Australia as a consequence for commiting crimes that they would have otherwise been hung for. -
Australian Smallpox Epidemic
In April of 1789 a large smallpox epidemic broke out in Sydney, Austrlian. Among the victims was almost completely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This is due to the arrival of the Europeans and them bringing with them their diseases. As the Europeans have grown immune to the diease, they went through this period almost completelt uneffected while as Aboriginals had thirty percent of their population die out. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was inspired by the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. It was when the French citizens redesigned their countries political landscape, wiping out old monarchy and the unfair feudal system. It did not achieve all of its goals and at times broke out a chaotic bloodbath, however it is still a significant point in history that shows what the will of the people can achieve. -
Myall Creek Massacre
On the 10th of June 1838 a group of eleven European convicts and ex-convicts gathered together a group of Aboriginal people that consisted of elder men and women that were carrying babies. The groupd of Europeans tied the Aboriginals and lead them to a nearby creek and killed them all individually, some by gun, the rest by sword to save money on bullets. The groupd of Europeans were then tried for murder, seven of the eleven Europeans were hung as a consequence. -
The Gold Rush
Edward Hargraves discovered gold in New South Wales in May 1851. This lead to many other Gold discoveries in New South Wales. Due to this gold rush discovery many people from overseas and other states rushed to New South Wales to get some gold, which was good for the people who found some and gained huge wealth. But it also lead to violence and cultural discrimination once again. -
End of Convict Transportation
The transportation of convicts to Australia ended early 1868. The anti-transportation movement was one of the first and strongest political movements that bound Australian citizens. A petition was held to allow the Australian democracy to decide. The petition for anti-transportation was signed by 16,000 Australian citizens. -
Federation
The federation was when six seperate British self-governing colonies which consisted of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia all came together to form the states of a single nation, Australia. -
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was a group of Chinese peasants who formed a secret society called "Boxers". The group was designed to practice boxing and calistenics that made them believe they were invinsible against bullets. -
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
The Anglo-Japanese treaty was signed before World War 1. It was arranged because Britain saw Japanese as a useful ally in the pacific so they agreed to co-operate together as Japan required modern naval vessels that the British supplied. -
Outbreak of WW1
The official outbreak of World War 1 began after Serbia assassinated the next heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, Archuke Franz Ferdinand. The complicated Alliance system then lead to multiple countries getting involved and causing a world wide war. -
Australian War Precautions Act
The War Precatutions Act gave the Australian Federal Government the right to make any laws about anything that contributed to the war efforts throughout the duration of the war and 6 months after. This power also gave them the entitlement to make any laws legal without permission from the Parliament first. There were 3,442 prosecutions under the act that were almost all successful. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty at the end of World War 1. It was signed by Germany exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and meant that there would be peace and no more war from Germany and the allied powers. It took six months of negotiations after the war ending for the peace treaty to be finalised and signed.
