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James Cook charted the East Coast of Australia[4] for Britain and returned with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay (now in Sydney), New South Wales.
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outbreak of the french revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling aristocrats who levied high taxes to support extavagant lifestyles.
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george stephenson builds the first passenger railway between liverpool and manchester
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publication of the peoples character in britain demanding political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21
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Edward hargraves find first gold rush near bathurst triggering several gold rushes around australia.
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convict transport to australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in western austalia.
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The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours.
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brother orvile and wilbur wright acheive the first controlled, powered, man-carrying flight.
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henry ford produces his first ford model T automobile
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the worlds then largest passenger steamship, the titanic, hits an iceburg in the north west atlantic ocean and sinks; 1517 people die.
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In 1939, Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the Manhattan Project, whose research produced the first atomic bomb.
