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The First Fleet
According to Robert Hughes, about 8 out of 10 criminals had been convicted of theft
Captain James Cook arrived in Australia in 1770
There was 11 ships in the first fleet
The Aboriginal people were treated as though they were animals, the fleet expected them to become prisoners and work for them
There was around 1,350 people in the first fleet -
The French Revolution
Peasants had to pay taxes to their noble and the king
Every year on the 14th of July the French celebrate the storming of the prison in paris, which marks the revolution of 1789
During the French revolution the Guillotine was created over 18,000 people were killed
King Louis XVI was nearly not executed
A new decimal calendar and way of telling the time was adopted by the revolutionaries, a ten day week, each day was divided into ten hours, each hour had 100 mins and each min had 100 secs -
the discovery of gold in Australia
The first official discovery was made by Edward Hargraves in 1851
The rush to the gold fields and abandonment of jobs had a direct affect on the shortage and cost of labour both in cities and the country.
The largest gold nugget was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in 1869
Ballarat and Bendigo were the most successful gold fields.
Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie were some of Australia’s largest gold mines -
The First Automobile
Karl Benz had a car named after him it was the Mercedes benz
Adolf Hitler ordered Ferdinand Porsche to manufacture a Volkswagen, which means peoples car in German
In 1916, 55% of the cars in the world were Model T Ford
The first automobile was made in 1886
The first car was used to haul cannons around -
The Boer War
The boer waas waas a conflict in which the British Empire fought the forces of two “Boer Republics” from 1899 to 1902 in Southern Africa
In 1868, diamonds were discovered on Boer lands
In 1886 gold was discovered in the Transvaal
The British thought the war would only last a few months, the Boers put up a strong fight but were defeated by the British
An estimation of 300,000 horses died in the Boer war -
Federation in Australia
Before January 1st 1901 Australia was not a nation
During the 1890s, each colony sent representatives to conventions to try and agree about how to form a new federation
In Australia, power was divided between the federal government and the governments of the six colonies, which we now know as states
Specific areas of legislative power were given to the federal government, including taxation, defence, foreign affairs and postal and telecommunications services -
First Controlled, Powered, Man-Carrying Flight
The first flight was in 1903
Brothers Wilbur and Orville made the plane
The first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet
The longest flight lasted 59 seconds and covered 852 feet
The flight was 20 feet above a beach in North Carolina -
The Sinking of Titanic
The titanic hit an iceberg 1912
a lifeboat drill was meant to happen on board the titanic on the day that the ship hit the iceberg but for an unknown reason it was cancelled
From the time the alert sounded, the officers on the bridge had only 37 seconds to react before the titanic hit the iceberg
There not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board
The titanic was the largest passenger carrying ship measuring about 269 metres -
WW1
At the beginning of the war tanks were grouped according to their gender
Many women who worked with TNT suffered from toxic jaundice
Explosions from France were heard 140 miles away in London
In America, suspicion of the Germans were so high that even german shepherd dogs were killed
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip which started WW1 -
The Wall Street Crash
The wall street crash was in 1929
Roger Babson predicted the crash about a month before it happened
The decade following WW1 was a period of boom in the U.S. due to post-war optimism
People invested heavily in stocks and such was the positive sentiment that investors perhaps believed that the stock market would rise indefinitely and was a one way bet
Due to advancement in production techniques in the 1920’s, there was a great rise in production in industries like automobile