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HISTORY TIMELINE ASSESSMENT TASK
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Captain Cook Discovered Australia
In 1770, Captain Cook discovered the south east coast of Australia, landing in Botany Bay. On 22 August 1770, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia New South Wales. -
Design Of A More Efficient Steam Engine
This massive steam engine played a key role in the development of the modern world. Built in England during the Industrial Revolution, the Boulton and Watt steam engine may be the most significant technological artefact ever to reach Australia. -
The First Fleet Arrives In Australia
The First Fleet left England on 13th May 1787. The fleet arrived at Botany Bay. This area was unsuitable for settlement because of the lack of fresh water and poor cropping soil. They moved to Port Jackson on the Australian East coast on 26th of January 1788. -
Gold Rushes Start In Australia
Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia. The discovery marked the beginning of the Australian gold rushes and a radical change in the economic and social fabric of the nation. New South Wales yielded 26.4 tonnes (26400 kilograms) of gold in 1852. -
American Civil War Ends
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to help put an end to the Confederate. Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead. -
Last Shipment Of Convicts To Australia
When the last shipment of convicts disembarked in Western Australia in 1868, the total number of transported convicts stood at around 162,000 men and women. They were transported to Australia on 806 ships. -
The invention Of The telephone
there were two people in the running to invent the telephone. In the 1870s, two inventors Alexander Graham Bell and the less known Elisha Gary, both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically. Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, but Bell patented his telephone first. -
Australia Forms One Nation
Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901. 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. onstitutional' because the Commonwealth of Australia was established with a written constitution, and monarchy' because Australia's head of state was Queen Victoria. -
First Man Carrying Flight Machine
Wilbur and Orville Wright became the first to make a controlled and sustained flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air craft. Three men from the Kill Devil Life Saving Station and two from Nags Head witness the four trial flights. First trial is made by Orville at 10:35 A.M., stays twelve seconds in the air, and flies 120 feet. Wilbur makes the longest flight in the fourth trial, fifty-nine seconds in the air and 852 feet. -
Ford Model T Automoblie Was Produced
The first production Model T Ford was assembled at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit. Over the next 19 years, Ford would build 15,000,000 automobiles with the Model "T" engine, the longest run of any single model apart from the Volkswagen Beetle. With the development of the sturdy, low-priced Model T in 1908, Henry Ford made his company the biggest in the industry. -
Titanic Hits an iceberg
The world's then largest passenger steamship (Titanic) hits an iceberg in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people died. -
World War I Ends
In 1918 the Australians reached the peak of their fighting performance in the battle of Hamel on 4 July. From 8 August they then took part in a series of decisive advances until Germany surrendered on 11 November. the First World War remains the most costly conflict in terms of deaths and casualties.
