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Enclosure of land increases in Britian
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Period: to 198
Modern History
Modern history 1750-1918 -
James Hargreaves invents the spinning Jenny
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1765
Invention of the Steam engine -
Water frame
Richard Arkwright invented the water frame to produce strong yarn in Cromford, Derbyshire -
Richard Arkwright opens first factory
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Declaration of independence (USA)
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James Watt invents a steam engine to power machines in factories
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Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccination
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British government bans slave trade
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George Stephenson develops the rocket steam locomotive
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Slavery Abolition act
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Factory act
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Brunel's SS Great Western., the first transatlantic steam ship
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The Communist Manifesto is published
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Eight hours Movement
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Henry Bessemer develops process to mass produce steel
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Overland telegraph links Australia
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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Karl Benz produces the first Automoblie
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The Wright brothers make first powered flight
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Pre WW1 in Australia
Australia's 1911 Census recorded the population as 4,455,005 with the median age of 24 years old. -
the assignation of Franz Ferdinand of Hungary by a Serbian man
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Reasons for men's enlistment to go to war
needed regular pay.
sought combat or adventure.
wanted to escape from normal life.
wanted to do their duty for the British Empire. -
Number of men that went to war
416,809 Australians -
Australia's conscription
the Prime Minister Billy Hughes tried to create a conscription to send men to the first world war forcedly. two conscription referenda were held in 1916 and 1917 -
End of WW1