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Vampires and the Enlightenment
Belief in Vampires was at its strongest up until the enlightment. Some people would go on vampire hunts and exhumed the dead bodies of supposed vampires. The unrealistic view on vampires was questioned by Voltaire he rejected the belief in vampires declaring 'What, Is it in our eighteenth century that vampires exist?" -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to A new manufacturing processes in the period from 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines. improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools. It also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. -
First Fleet
Between 1788 and 1850 the English sent over 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships. The first eleven of these ships are today known as the First Fleet and contained the convicts and marines that are now acknowledged as the Founders of Australia. Captain James Cook first discovered the east coast of New Holland in 1770 and named it New South Wales. He sailed the whole of the coast and reported to the British government that he thought it would make a good place for a new settlement. -
Translantic Slave Trade
The Translantic Slave trade began in the late 18th century and lasted for many years into the late 19th century, The TST was a triangular trade across the Atlantic Ocean between West Africa, European nations and their American colonies,The longlivity of the trade relied heavily on the capture of Western African slaves. After Capture the slaves were transported to Caribbean colonies, were they were sold to plantation owners, there they harvested crops for the plantation owners recieving no pay, -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism. -
Australian Bounty Scheme
The first free settlers arived in Australia in 1793 but by 1835 there was a worrying gender imbalence in NSW of 4 men to 1 Woman, to deal with this problem the goverment introduced the Bounty Scheme, which was designed to bring more married couples and young woman to Australia. Under the Scheme established settlers paid the travel fare for skilled workers from England and were reimbursed by the government if the new settlers were born healthy and above the age of 15 for woman and 18 for men. -
Beginning of AFL
In 1857, Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Football, returned to Australia after schooling in England. He was a very sucsessful cricketer and devised the game to keep the cricketers fit in the off season. The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858 shortly after the Geelong Football Club was formed followed by the Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne (now sydeny). -
The First Ashes
The term the Ashes originated in a British newspaper, Immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The newspaper stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, when the English captain Ivo Bligh vowed to "regain those ashes". -
First Australian Parliament
Federal elections for the inaugural Parliament of Australia were held in Australia on Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 March 1901 following Federation and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia.The first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, contested the inaugural 1901 federal election as head of a caretaker Protectionist Party federal government. Edmunds reigns lasted for two and a half years, he was succedeed by Frank Liddell -
Cause of World War I
On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 10:45 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand. The event led to a chain of events that eventually triggered World War I. -
The Western Front
Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then by gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several major offensives along this front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances -
ANZAC Gallipoli Campaign
Between 4.30 and 4.45 am the 3rd Australian Brigade along with the Battalions and the 3rd Field Ambulance landed on Gallipoli around Ari Burnu point. By the evening, despite strong Turkish counter-attacks, the Anzacs held a narrow triangle of land roughly 2 kilometres long at its base on the coast and extending to just under a kilometre inland at its widest.By 3 am on 26 April more than 1700 casualties had been evacuated from the area of the Anzac landing, mainly via the beach to the south.
