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the invention of the first steam engine
in 1712 thomas newcomen invented the first steam engine. it was not important in the time that it was invented but it became useful during the industrial revilution -
The French Reveloution
The French Revolution was an important time period of social and political disturbance in France that lasted for 10 years. France went from a monarchy that was ruled by King Louis the sixteenth to a republic ruled by the people of France and then to a dictatorship run by Napoleon. The French Revolution was the bloodiest time period in European history. -
the crossing of the blue mountains
The crossing of the Blue Mountains was an important expedition that was led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth. This became the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers. The crossing of the Blue Mountains enable the settlers to us the land that awaited them on the west of the mountains for farming and other things -
european trade with africa becomes well established
Europe realized that that Africa had many different natural resources, so king Leopold II decided that he did not want to wait for those natural resources to be traded to him, he would rather to divide Africa amongst the European nations and lower the cost of transport back and forth between the two countries. -
the start of world war 1
World War 1 started 28th July 1918. The cause of the war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand who was the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip who was a Serbian nationalist with ties to a secretive military group known as the Black Hand.
