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Period: Jun 1, 1500 to
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
From the middle of the 15th century, Africa entered into a unique relationship with Europe that led to the devastation and depopulation of Africa, but contributed to the wealth and development of Europe. From then until the end of the 19th century, Europeans began to establish a trade for African captives. -
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The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. -
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Seven Years war
The Seven Years' War was a world war that took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven year period 1756-1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. -
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The Industrial Revolution
The era known as the Industrial Revolution was a period in which fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, transportation, economic policies and the social structure in England. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution occured when the thirteen colonies break from the British Empire and became their own country and states. -
First Fleet Arrives
The First Fleet consisted of 11 ships and about 1500 people in all. There were over 700 convicts, 290 marines, 400 sailors and some women and children.the fleet stopped at Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope to pick up food, animals, plants and other supplies before heading to Botany Bay. The fleet landed at Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788. -
Smallpox Outbreak
In April 1789, just over fifteen months after the First Fleet of British convicts, sailors and marines had arrived in Port Jackson, the Aborigines of the Sydney region were seen to be dying in large numbers in the vicinity of the British settlement. From the journals of the British in the First Fleet it is clear that they died from a smallpox virus, for the people of the First Fleet knew smallpox when they saw it. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution was inspired by the American Revolution and the Enlightenment. The French citizens decided to redesign their country and the political landscape. -
Myall Creek Massacare
Myall Creek Massacare is when the Europeans killed over 30 unarmed Aborginals. Eleven European men shoot a group of aboriginals. Seven of these men were hung. -
Chinese Migration
Chinese Immigrants made up most of the populatio during the gold rush. Europrans were extremly rasict towards the Chinese and had many conflicts thought the Gold Rush -
The first Gold Rush
Edward Hargraves discovered gold in NSW. After that mirgrants from Britian, America and China were coming to find gold. -
Federation
Federation is when South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia became a indivdual Australian states instead of British colonies -
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Boxer Rebellion
Beginning in 1898, groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as I-ho ch'üan ("Righteous and Harmonious Fists"), called the "Boxers" by Western press. Members of the secret society practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals which they believed would make them impervious to bullets. -
Outbreak of WWI
World war one started on the 28th July 1914. This all happened because a young Serbian man shoot the heir to Austro-Hungary’s empire Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. -
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Gallipoli Campaign
From the outbreak of war in 1914, thousands of Australian men volunteered to fight. The first major fighting for these men was in what would come to be known as the failed Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. It was in Gallipoli that the Australian and New Zealand soldiers first fought united under the ANZAC name. The title later became a legend. -
Treaty of Versaille
The Versailles Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, was the peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers that officially ended World War I. However, the conditions in the treaty were so punitive upon Germany that many believe the Versailles Treaty laid the groundwork for the eventual rise of Nazis in Germany and the eruption of World War II. -
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Invention of the Spinning Jenny
In 1764, a British carpenter and weaver named James Hargreaves invented an improved spinning jenny, a hand-powered multiple spinning machine that was the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel by making it possible to spin more than one ball of yarn or thread.{p] Spinner machines like the spinning wheel and the spinning jenny made the threads and yarns used by weavers in their looms. As weaving looms became faster, inventors had to find ways for spinners to keep up.