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Industrial Revolution Begins
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When the Spinning jenny was invented
by James Hargreaves -
First reliable steam engine is invented
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First fleet arrives in Australia
Between 1788 and 1850 the English sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships.
These convicts had been sent to Australia as the jails in Britain were getting way too over crowded, and there was no other place for the criminals to go. The way to overcome these problems was to set up a new penal colony in the land discovered by James Cook. The convicts would be transported, never to return to Britain.
Very few convicts new how to farm, and the soil around Sydney cove was poor. -
English slave ship trips
204 ships leave from England to carry slaves from Africa to the Americas - the busiest slave trading year for Britain. -
Pemulwuy is killed
Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal man in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is known for his fight against the European settlement in Australia which began in 1788. -
Melbourne founded
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Slave trade is abolished in UK
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Myall Creek Massacre
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Buckland river riot
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Federation of Australia
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Immigration Restriction act passed
Limiting Immigration into Australia. (White Australia Policy) -
Women gains right to vote
In Australia they got to vote in Commonwealth Elections -
The Harvester Judgement
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Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria was an Archduke of Austria-Este and Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. -
World War I begins
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ANZAC troops land in Gallipoli
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Australians vote against conscription
The first vote -
World War I Ends
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US declares war on Germany
Entering World War I
