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1750-1918
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Boston Massacre
This event happened because a few colonists started srguing with a british private, soon after 50 more colonists came and started harrasing the private more soldiers joind to help the private and when all got even worse they fired into the croud of colonists killing 5 at the scene -
American Declaration of indapendence 1776
The Declaration of Indapendence gave inderpendence to the american colonies from Great Britain. the declaration was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R Livingston and John Adams -
Australian Gold Rush 1850
On the first of July 1850 a man named Edward Hargraves discovered gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, this started the trigger of several gold rushes around Australia that lasted for 10 years -
The American Civil War
fought between southern and northern states of the United States. The southern states didn't want to be part of the United States any more and decided to make their own country. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
Thomas Alva Edison improves the light bulb
Thomas Edison improved the eletric light bulb. Edison recreated it with a brighter light and he also made it last longer -
Adolf Hitler was Born
Asolf hitler was an Austrian-born. Hitler was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was leader of the Nazi party and became a powerful dictator. Hitler started World War II by invading Poland and then invading many other European countries. He is also known for wanting to exterminate the Jewish people. Adolf hitler died on Aplril the 30th 1945 -
First Modern Olympics
the first modern olympics took place in Athens, Greece but only men were aloud to compete -
the First Powered Flight
Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first powered flight -
Henry Ford's Model T
Henry ford inveted the first affordable automobile by 1918. 15 million Model T's were made by 1918 -
titanic sinks April 15, 1912.
The Titanic was built between 1909 and 1911. It left Southampton on April 10, 1912, It collided with an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. killing of 1500 of the 2200 on board -
World War 1 started
WW1 started because of conficts between 2 countries. By the end of WW1, over 9 million soldiers had been killed, and another 21 million wounded
