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1750 - 1918 Events
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by british regulars on March the 5th, 1770. This was the culminationof tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768, this lead to the war of independance. -
Australia discovered by Captain Cook
Lieutenant James Cook was the first European known to have explored the more habitable east coast. Cook had been sent to chart the transit of Venus from Tahiti, but he also charted much of the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. He reached New Zealand in October 1769, and mapped its coast. On 19 April 1770, the crew of the Endeavour sighted the east coast of Australia and ten days later landed in a bay now located in Sydney's southern suburbs. -
Signing of the Decloration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation, the United States of America. -
The start of the french revolution
The revolution was to get rid of the kings power. The start of the revolution was at a tennis court, which is where the name The Tennis Court Oath came from. From there they raided Fort Bastille. Because of this revolution and the American Revolution, the Latin American Countries Tried to revolt. -
Myall Creek Massacre
Myall Creek Massacre involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Indigenous Australians by ten white Europeans and one black African on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near Bingara in northern New South Wales. After two trials, seven of the 11 colonists involved in the killings were found guilty of murder and hanged. -
American Civil War
The Cicil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure. The rights to free slaves also began. -
Stolen Generation
In 1869 the Children of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander descents were taken away from their parents by state government or agencies. They were taken to supposedly make Australia more “pure”. It is estimated that about 100,000 indigenous children were taken from their families. -
Invention of the Telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). -
Australia named a independent country
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising of the Australian continent, It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The country was named an independent country on the 1st of January in 1901 -
Sinking of Titanic
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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferinand
Archduke was shot by a Serbian on this day. This is what sparked the war. Austria-Hungary declared war on Seribia, Bringing in Russia, which brought in Germany, which brought in France and Great Britian, this was a domino effect. -
World War 1
The first world war began when Britain and Germany went to war in August 1914, and Prime Minister Andrew Fishers gorvernment pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places with great enthusiasm. The war ended on the 11th of November 1918.
