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James Watt invents a more efficient train engine
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The American Continental Congress announces that the American colonies are free and independent from Great Britain.
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The First Fleet arrives in New South Wales, beginning British settlement in Australia.
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The Sydney Herald is first published
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Publication of the Working Men’s Publication in Britain demanding political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21.
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Paul de Strzelecki discovers gold near Hartley , New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia.
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Burke and Wills expedition across Australia
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Australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in Western Australia.
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Premier State, The Sunshine State, The Festival State, The Apple Isle, The Garden State and the Wildflower State – the six colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia form one nation.
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Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first controlled, powered, man-carrying flight.
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Henry Ford, produces his first Gasoline motored automobile
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The world’s then largest passenger steamship, the Titanic, hits an iceberg in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and sinks; Thousands of people die.
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World War One ends with the defeat of the Germans