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the american revolution
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-revolutionary-war?m=528e38969e64d the american revolution was just the begining of declarence of independence. -
americas 13 brithish colonies passed a declaration of independence from britian
on the 4 of july 1776 ameicas 13 british colonies passed a declaration of independence from britain. it claimed that all man aare created equal. -
The settlement of Australia
On 13 May 1787, a fleet of 11 ships sailed from England. They reached Botany Bay on 18 January 1788 with 1,530 people, 736 of them convicts. Eight days later, the fleet left to establish a settlement at Port Jackson, a few kilometres north. The settlement grew to be Sydney, Australia’s biggest city. -
The bastille prison in paris was invade as a protest against royal power
the bastille prison in paris was invaded by people as a protest aginst the royal goverment. it then became known as the french revolution. -
the battle of trafalgar.
The French Emperor Napoleon, victorious all over Europe, wished to eliminate his most constant opponent: Great Britain. He devised an ambitious plan to invade southern England by crossing the Channel in a specially-constructed invasion flotilla. He attempted to concentrate his battle fleets in the mouth of the Channel to overwhelm the British defenders.the british won the war despite being out numbered by th french. -
the gold rush
The gold rushes in the second half of the 19th century would completely change the face of Australia. Before 1851, Australias combined white population was approximately 77,000. Most of those had been convicts sent by ship over the previous seventy years. the people who were looking for gold had to have a license and they were called "diggers" -
eureka stockade
The rebellion came about because the goldfield workers known as diggers opposed the government miners licences. The licences were a simple way for the government to tax the diggers. Licence fees had to be paid regardless of whether a digger's claim resulted in any gold. Less successful diggers found it difficult to pay their licence fees. -
American civil war
the Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. -
The invention of the gattling gun.
in 1861 doctor richard gattling inveted the gattling gun. a six barrled weapon that could shoot an amazing 200 rounds per minute. the gattling gun was hand driven crank operated multi barrel machine gun. he created it during the american civil war to help them fight. -
the wright brothers.
Originally from Dayton, Ohio the two owned a bicycle repair shop and spent their spare time working towards a dream of creating a powered and controlled flying machine. Realizing that dream on December 17, 1903, modern aviation was born. Throwing open the doors for travel, communication, and international commerce, the world was reconfigured as a global community. -
titanic
On this date the titanic set off from southhampton to england to new york. one of the largest luxurious passage liners at the time.
the large ship also clamied to unsinkable but on april 14 the ship struck a large iceberg and sank and thousands died. -
First world war 1914-1918
the first world war was centered around europe.world war one was sparked by the assasination of archduke franz ferdinand by a serbian nationalist. 10 million military people died and 7million civilians died.
