THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD

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    MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD

  • First fleet

    First Fleet The first flet of 11 ships, left Portsmouth in 1787 with more than 1480 men, women and children onboard. Although most were British, there were also African, American and French convicts. It took 3 months for the fleet to arrive at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788.

  • First Battery

    first battery Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store electrical current. The unit of electric potential, volt, is named after him. The battery made by Volta is credited as the first electrochemical cell.

  • first passenger railway

    first passenger railway George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway.
    The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the worlds first twin-track passenger railway in which all the trains were timetable and ticked. The line opened on 15 September 1830 and ran between the towns of Liverpool and Manchester in North West England in the United Kingdom.

  • Gold rush

    gold rush Edward Hargraves discovers a grain of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia. He named the place 'Ophir', reported his discovery to the authorities, and was appointed a 'Commissioner of Land'. He received a reward of 10,000, plus a life pension.

  • Last Convict Shipment

    last convict shipment oxford big ideas. Convict transportation to Australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in Western Australia. The Blackwall Frigate Hougoumont, unloads the final 279 convicts in WA.

  • Ned Kelly

    ned kelly Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger. Kelly's legacy is controversial; some consider him to be a murderous villain, while others view him as a folk hero and Australia's equivalent of Robin Hood. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and a helmet, was captured and sent to gaol. He was hung in november 1880.

  • Federation of Australia

    The six colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia form one nation. Oxford Big Ideas.

  • Wright achieve first flight

    Brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve th first controlled, powered, man carrying flight. Oxford Big Ideas.

  • Sinking of Titanic

    The worlds then largest passenger steamship, the Titanic, hits an iceberg on the 15 April 1912 in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people died. Oxford Big Ideas.

  • World War 1 ends

    World War 1 ends with the defeat of Germany. At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War, known at the time as the Great War, comes to an end.