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Industrial Revolution (Start)
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US. -
Scottish engineer James Watt patented a steam engine
James Watt did not invent the steam engine but he improved the engine apparatus, in 1764 Watt observed a flaw in the Newcomen steam engine: it wasted a lot of steam and in 1765 Watt conceived of a separate condenser—a device to reduce the amount of waste produced by the Newcomen steam engine. -
British Discovery of Australia
Navigator and astronomer Captain James Cook claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Great Britain, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales’. -
United States Declaration of Independence
The main purpose of America's Declaration of Independence was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain, the Revolutionary War had already begun, and several major battles had already taken place. -
First Fleet Lands in Australia
The First Fleet carried the first white settlers to Australia, before 1787 convicts from England had been sent to British colonies in North America, but they were overflowing as well as the British jails, Captain Arthur Phillip was in charge and his job was to establish a convict settlement in Australia. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government, the French Revolution lasted 10 years from 1789 to 1799 and it began on 14 July 1789 when revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastille. -
Invention of the Electric Light bulb
In 1802, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light, over the next seven decades, other inventors also created “light bulbs” but no designs emerged for commercial application, until Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and succeeded in creating a practical bulb in 1879. -
Slave Trade is banned in England
On 25 March 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act entered the statute books, but although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies, trafficking between the Caribbean islands continued, regardless, until 1811. -
Industrial Revolution (Finish)
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US. -
Gold Rushes in Australia
The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir, he had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling. -
American Civil War
The Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. -
Australia officially becomes a Nation
Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Commonwealth of Australia was established as a constitutional monarchy. -
First Controlled Powered Air flight
During the spring and summer of 1903, the Wright brothers were consumed with leaping that final hurdle into history, and on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft, the Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
Sinking of the Titanic
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. -
World War 1 starts
The First World War began in August 1914, and was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip, though the actual causes of the war are more complicated and are still debated by historians today.