Industrial revoloutyion

By brockvandoren

  • 1775

    James watt designs a more efficient steam engine

  • 1776

    American Declaration of independence announces the american colonies independence from great britain

  • 1788

    first fleet arrives in botany bay beginning britsh settlement in australia

  • 1789

    outbreak of the french revoloution as a consequencce of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling aristocrats who levied high taxes to support extravagent lifestyles

  • 1800

    alessandro volta invents a battery to store electrical current the unit of electric potential volt is named after him

  • 1812

    Textile workers smash machinery in factoires and mills in the midlands and north of England

  • 1830

    Gorge stephenson builds the first passenger railway between liverpool and manchester

  • 1838

    publication of the charter in britain demanding political reform including the right for everyman to vote for every man from the age of 21

  • 1850

    Edward hargraves discovers cold near bathurst NSW trigering seveal gold rushes aroud Australia

  • 1868

    Convict transportation to Australia ceases with the last shipment of convictits disembarking is western australia.

  • 1901

    Federation of Australia - the six colonies of NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC and WA form one nation

  • 1903

    Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the fisrt controled, powered man carrying flight.

  • 1908

    Henry ford produces his first model T ford automobiel

  • 1912

    The worlds largest passenger steamship the titanic hits and iceberg in the north west atlantic ocean and sinks 1517 peop[le die

  • 1918

    world war 1 ends with the defeat of germany