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Year 9 Humanities 1750-1918
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Invention of Stream Engine
While Thomas Savery patented the first steeam engine in 1689. However, it wasn't until Scottsman James Watt improved on the steam engine in the 1775 that it become a viable piece of machinary. that helped start the Industrial Revolution. Steam engines are able to harness the energy of steam to move machinery. Steam engines, which is a clean source of energy, were used to run locomotives and steamships. -
Great Lisbon Earthquake
Lisbon earthquake of 1755, series of earthquakes that occurred on the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, causing serious damage to the port city of Lisbon, Portugal, and killing an estimated 60,000 people. The earthquake generated a tsunami that produced waves about 6 metres high at Lisbon, the total number of persons killed included those who perished by drowning and in fires that burned throughout Lisbon for about six days following the quake. -
Captain James Cook lands in Botany Bay
Captain James cook was a British explorer, cartographer and navigator.He is well known in Australia for being the first European to achieve contact with the eastern coastline of Australia. He landed in Botany Bay, Sydney in 1770. -
The First Fleet land in Australia
Between 1778 and 1850, 806 ships of convicts were shipped to Australia from England. The first 11 of these ships are now known as “The First Fleet”. The fleet consisted of three store ships, six convict ships, two men o-war ships with a total of 756 convicts. -
Matthew Flinders navigates around the coast Australia
Matthew Flinders was a navigator that sailed around the coast of Australia and was the first of many navigators to map the “unknown land” .The unknown land’s chart was complete in 1803 by governor King, However, it was not published because Flinders had not named most of the land marks and inlets. -
New Holland changed name to Australia
In 1817, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie recommended that new Holland should change it’s name to Australia. However, in 1824, New Holland was officially changed to Australia. Australia was the name that Matthew Flinders used to call NSW. -
AFL Started
The game that is now known as Australian Rules football was created in 1858. It waqs invented keep cricketers fit during winter. The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858, and played a game consisting of forty players on each side using a round ball. The match that lasted for more than five hours and attracted large crowds of spectators then, and continues to do so today. -
The American Civil War
In 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War. Four years of brutal conflict between the States, pitted neighbor against neighbor. By the time it ended in Confederate surrender in 1865, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and the population and territory of the South devastated. -
The birth of the telephone
The telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph.Speaking through the instrument to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell utters these famous first words, "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you." -
Electricity and Lightbulb
Thomas Edison's greatest challenge was the development of a practical electric light. Edison didn't "invent" the lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1879, using lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was able to produce a reliable, long-lasting source of light. The idea of electric light was not new but up to that time, nothing had been developed that was remotely practical for home use. -
Ned Kelly was hanged
The bushranger Ned Kelly is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. He has been memorialised by painters, writers, musicians and filmmakers alike. Ned Kelly was tried and convicted of the murder of Constable Lonigan. Ned Kelly was hanged on 11th November 1880 at Melbourne Gaol. -
Invention of the Automobile
It was the men and women behind over 100,000 patents that created the modern automobil, including Karl Benz, the German mechanical engineer who designed and built the world's first practical automobile in 1885. And Henry Ford, who improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing and invented a car transmission mechanism. -
The Eiffel Tower built
The Eiffel Tower was built for the World Exhibition in 1889, held in celebration of the French Revolution in 1789.
The construction was only meant to last for the duration of the Exposition, but it still stands today, despite all protests from contemporary artists and despite the many people who feared that this huge 'object' would not fit into the architecture of Paris. Today, there is no such aversion anymore among the Parisians, and one could not imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower. -
The modern Olympic Games
The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient birthplace of Athens. The Games attracted athletes from 14 nations, with the largest delegations coming from Greece, Germany, France and Great Britain. -
Federation of Austrailia
Australia became an independent nation on 1 January 1901. The British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six Australian colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia.The six colonies consisted of New South Wales, Queensland, South Austraila, Tasmania, Victoria and Westen Austrailia. The Commonwealth of Australia was established as a constitutional monarchy. -
The first silent Movie
The 12-minute-long silent film, The Great Train Robbery, was the first narrative movie, that told a story. Its popularity led directly to the opening up of permanent movie theaters and the future film industry. The Great Train Robbery was hugely popular with audiences and starred Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, who then played in the first nickelodeons (theaters in which movies cost a nickel to see).34444444444444444des -
The Wright Brothers
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina, USA. The brothers began their experimentation in flight in 1896 at their bicycle shop. Having perfected glided flight, they began working on powered flight. No automobile manufacturer could supply an engine both light enough and powerful enough for their needs. So they designed and built their own. -
Titanic The Unsinkable Ship
One of the largest and most luxurious passenger liners at the time, the Titanic was also considered by many to be unsinkable. On April 14, four days into the journey from England to New York City, the ship struck an iceberg, and early the next day it sank killing one thousand five hurndred and twenty,two passages and crew. -
World War 1
World War One begun due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, 1914. 2.More than 65 million men from 30 countries fought in WWI. Nearly 10 million died. WW1 ended on the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies.
