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Benjamin Franklin Kite
On June 10 1752 Benjamin franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm. This experiment was to prove that lightning is in fact a bolt of electricity. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
British First Fleet 1788
The first fleet set sail from Botany Bay on the 13th of May 1787. This fleet consisted of 11 ships and about 1500 people altogether. When they arrived, it was the middle of summer so there was little fresh water or fertile soil. So Captain Phillip decided to take some crew and set sail north. They found the clear waters of a protected harbour they named Sydney. They raised the Union Jack to proclaim NSW a British Colony. -
Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland merge to form United Kingdom
The Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became united on the 1st of January 1801, under the terms of the Act of Union 1800. -
Slave Trade abolished in British Empire
The Slave Trade act was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed on 25th March 1807 with the title,“An act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade”. This act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. -
Melbourne Founded By John Batman
In 1835, John Batman as a leading member of the Port Phillip Association sailed for the mainland in the Schoone Rebecca. When he found the site for central Melbourne. He wrote in his diary, “This will be a place for a village”.He named the land “Batmania”. -
Battle of Gettysburg
One of the mot important and most famous civil war battle occurred over three days from July 1st to July 3rd, around the town Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It started as a skirmish but by its end, it involved 160,000 Americans. -
Telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won. -
Thomas Edison Invents Practical electrical light
Thomas A. Edison was a businessman and an American Inventor. The devices he invented greatly influenced life around the world. Some devices he invented were; the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lashing practical electrical light bulb. He invented this light bulb in 1879. -
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was designed by the French engineer and bridge builder Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) for the Paris Exposition of 1889. The tower is 300 m (984 ft) high and consists of an open iron framework making it the highest manmade structure in the world at the time. It was the largest attraction at the Exposition and today it remains the most recognized structure in all of Europe. -
Titanic Sinks on Maiden Voyage
The Titanic was a passenger liner that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on her voyage from South Hampton, England to New York City, USA. The ship sunk on 15th April 1912. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution took place in 1917, during the final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia’s traditional monarchy with the world’s first Communist state.