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Key events 1750 1918
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Captain james cook claimed the east coast of australia
Captain james cook chartered the Australian east coast in his ship the Endeavour. He named the east coast of australia new south whales. -
Napeoleonic wars began
The Napeoleonic wars were a series of wars between napoleons french empire and great britain. The french power rose quickly as napoleons armies conquered much of europe. Napoleon was finally defeated at the battle of waterloo in 1815 -
America bans the slave trade
The ban on slave trading created fines for ship captains if they continued to trade slaves. Captains could be fined up to 100$ per slave. The captains would often throw slaves overboard if they saw a navy ship approaching -
The war of 1812
The War of 1812 started because Britain and France were intruding the American trade and were taking their ships. The United States thought that Britain was still not treating it as an independent nation, and was in fact providing guns to the Native Americans to attack American settlers. These progressing disputes led to the War of 1812. -
American civil war
The election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America; four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired. -
Mahatma Gandhi was born
Mahatma Gandhi was is considered the father of the indian independance movement. He spent many years working to remove british rule from india and working to better the lives of indias poorest classes. -
The disassembled statue of liberty arrived in new york aboard a french freighter
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. -
First powered flight
On the 17th of december 1903 brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright took turns piloting and monitoring their flying machine in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Orville piloted the first flight that lasted just 12 seconds and 120 feet. On the fourth flight of the day, Wilbur traveled 852 feet, remaining airborne for 59 seconds. That morning, the brothers became the first people to demonstrate sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine under the complete control of the pilot. -
Henry ford launches the the model T automobile
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972 -
The titanic sinks
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, the largest ship to that date, left southampton, england on her voyage to new york city.
She was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats(enough for only half the passengers)Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg, the collision was fatal and the icy water soon poured through the ship -
World war 1
The First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war in August 1914, and Prime Minister Andrew Fisher's government pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places. -
Assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
archduke franz fedinand and his wife sophie are both shot point blank in their car by serbian nationalist garvilo princip having already survived one assassination attempt that same day.
