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James Watt invents the steam engine.
Until a little less than two hundred years ago, the power used in the production of food, clothing, and shelter was hand power. One of the most significant industrial changes of the 1700's was the removal of water from mines, Steam was used to pump the water from the mines. This was because of James Watts’s invention of the steam engine. -
captain cook landed in Australia
On Sunday 29th April 1770, Captain Cook and his crew arrived at Botany Bay. They didn’t set up a land based camp and remained on board their ship. They fished, explored, found water and botanised. The indigenous people didn’t want to make contact with Cook despite him trying to make contact with them on several occasions. -
First recorded surfboard
In 1777 captain cook lead an expedition to Hawaii, while he was there before he was killed by the native Hawaiians while trying to kidnap the chief of the natives, he recorded in his journal that the natives were surfing waves on wooden blanks. It was nothing anyone had seen before and was a start to the whole new surfing culture. -
Laki volcano erupted and caused famine in iceland
On 8 June, 1783, the country of Iceland (inhabited for less than 1,000 years) with a population of 50,000 had a terrifying occasion of the Laci volcano eruption. In the coming years, as a result of the eruption there was a famine. The Laki eruption is the worst catastrophe in the country's relatively short history. -
the declaration of rights for man
The inspiration for the declaration or human rights document to be formed emerged from th ideals of the American Revolution. The declaration n of rights for man is a document protecting everyone rights including freedom, privacy and human rights for everyone. -
Gold rush in california
The California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma in California. This event was a major influence on the American colonization because everyone moved from all over the place in search for money and power. -
american cival war
The Civil War of 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation America would be. Northern America victory in the war made the United States as one nation and ended slavery that had divided the country from its beginning. But these achievements came at the cost of 625,000 lives nearly as many American soldiers as died in all the other wars in which this country has fought combined. -
stolen generation
The Stolen Generations was about the many Aboriginal and some Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families by past Australian governments and church missions from the late 1800s to the 1900s. The Australian public was led to believe that Aboriginal children were disadvantaged and at risk in their communities, and they would receive a better education, more caring family, and more civilised upbringing in white families or in government missionaries. -
ned kelly hanged
On the 27th of June Ned Kelly was hanged in the Melbourne gaol as the eldest child in the family who had received a green sash for saving a boy when he was younger but had payed for his crimes from stealing from the rich and giving to the poor so was hanged in the gallows. His last words “ahh well, I guess it has come to this” -
Henry ford produces the first automobile
Henry ford did not invent the car, he made an automobile that was in the economical range for the normal American person. The success of the little vehicle fuelled Ford's automobile ambitions, leading ultimately to the founding of Ford Motor Company in 1903. -
assasination of archduke Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand, aged 51, was heir to the Hungarian empire. Franz Ferdinand was, however, very unpopular because he had made it clear that once he became Emperor he would make changes. He and his wife were killed by 19 year old Gavrilo Princip and the main reason of the world war one was because of those two shots fired on that day. -
New Holland changed his name to Australia
