Historical Timeline

By Jasperstoj
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  • industrial revolution

    1. James watt designs a more efficient steam engine.
    2. coal miners worked naked. Even kids worked in the mines.
    3. Cutlery shiners worked long hours and were paided by the piece, which kept them glued to their jobs

  • The first fleet arrives in botany bay Australia

    1. The convicts built most of the early cities in Australia.
    2. The built the roads, cleared land for farming.
    3. Some were assigned slaves for the high officers.

  • Alessandro Volta invents a battery

    1. He was italian
    2. The invention of the battery led to the first photo taken in 1827.
    3. Henry ford released the model t in 1908, which wouldnt have been possible without the battery.

  • Richard Gatling Invents The Gatling Gun

    Richard Gatling Invents The Gatling Gun
    1. The gatling guns was crank operated.
    2. The gatling gun could shoot 200 bullets per minute, thats 3 bullets a second which was astounding back then.
    3.The gun was on wheels so it could easily be pushed around.

  • American civil war ends

    1. Claude Minié invented a cone shaped lead bullet that could be loaded into a barrel without the aid of a mallet, decreasing the reload time.
    2. Repeating rifles, or weapons that could fire more than one bullet before needing a reload. The most famous of these guns, the Spencer carbine, could fire seven shots in 30 seconds.
    3. Over 620,000 people died in the civil wars

  • Thomas Edison invents the electric light system

    Thomas Edison invents the electric light system
    1. The lightbulb was a long lasting source of light.
    2. He also invented on/off switches.
    3.He also invented the devices that kept a constant voltage.

  • Ned Kelly is Hanged

    1. Ned is hanged at the melbourne jail.
    2. He killed 3 police
    3. He crafted unique bullet proof metal armour out of farm tools, estimated to weigh 20kg

  • The 6 colonies of Australia form 1 nation

    1. Alfred Deakin, Henry Parkes and Edmund Barton waged a long campaign to turn the six colonies of 3.7 million people into a country in its own right.
    2. Henry Parkes is often called the 'Father of Federation' for his role as a long-time agitator for the cause.
    3. All the colonies of Australia had their own railways, houses, even their own militaries.

  • The wright brothers to first heavier than air powered flight

    1. Their engine was called a piston engine, this had a total of twelve horsepower.
    2. Their first flight was actually I glider.
    3. The engine of the plane weighed 82 kg which made the plane weigh a total of 274 kg.

  • Henry ford releases the Model T Automobile

    Henry ford releases the Model T Automobile
    1. On May 27, 1927, production ended for the Ford Model T - 15,007,033 units had been manufactured.
    2. By the time the last Model T was built in 1927, the company was producing an automobile every 24 seconds.
    3. In 1932 he released his last engineering triumph, the one piece V8 engine.

  • Titanic Sinks

    1. It sinks on its first voyage.
    2.1517 people die
    1. There was enough life boats to fit all the passengers, but since everyone was panicking the life boats were wasted.

  • WW1 Started

    WW1 Started
    1. The spark that started World War I was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.