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Australia is discovered!
On the 19th of April, Captain James Cook, first discovered Australia on the ship Endevour. Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia and land in Sydney's Southern Suburbs. There has been some evidence though that shows that other countries and people to have discover Australia before James Cook. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a politial protest against the British after the taxation of tea brought into the colonys of Americal. The "Sons of Liberty" started throwing boxes of tea into the Boston River. The incident remains as an iconic event in America History. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written in the months of June and July 1776 and was ratifed on the 4th of July 1776. Many leaders of the French Revolution took admiration to the Declaration of Independence, this might have been a factor to the start of the French Revolution. -
The French Revolution 1789–1799
The late 1700s was a time a great change for the people of france. The King at the time King Louis XVI was very unpopular and spent a lot of the countries money on himself and his wife Marie Antoinette. Louis and Marie tried to escape because of all the uproar they had caused with french people but where found and executed on the guillotine, a new executional tool used until the 1977. -
The Storming of Bastille
The Bastille is a medieval prison in Paris that was attacked by the French Revolutionist to acquire weapons and gunpowder for the Revolution. There where only seven inmates int eh prison at the time of the attack. They was over 13,600 kilograms of gunpower stored in the prison. -
The Invention of the Steam Engine
After ten months' labor, George Stephenson's locomotive "Blucher" was completed and tested on the Cillingwood Railway on July 25, 1814. The track was an uphill trek of four hundred and fifty feet. George Stephenson's engine hauled eight loaded coal wagons weighing thirty tons, at about four miles an hour. This was the first steam engined powered locomotive to run on a railroad and it was the most successful working steam engine that had ever been constructed up to this -
Antarctica was Discovered
The very first sighting of Antarctica was by the Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. No one had set foot on Antarctica until 1821 by American John Davis. Captain James Cook was the first person to enter the Antarctic Circle in 1773 but did see the main land. -
The First Photograph ever taken
The exact date of the first photograph ever taken is unknown and was either taken in 1826 or 1827. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had taken this photograph from the upstairs window from his estate. Niépce began experimenting with lithographic printmaking, which lead to the invention of heliography. -
The Eureka Stockade
The Eureka Stockade took place in Ballart during the hight of the gold rush. The miners organised a rebillion against British colonial authority. The Victorian colonial government inducted a miner's licence fee. The miners were not happy this this decision an rebelled. -
The American Civil War 1861 - 1865
The American civil war was started because the Soutern states wanted slavary and the Northern states were fighting to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln's vision of free African Americans was not seen by the south which strongly disagreed and believed that African Americans were the lowest forms of life. The war killed 3% of the population. The war ended with the surrender of General Lee on the 9th of May 1865. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater. Booth did not agree with Lincoln's talks of equality with African Americans and White European Americans wich provoked him to assassinate him. Booth had seen many speeches of Abraham Lincoln's and had almost dreamed of killing him. Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back while seated at Ford's Theater. -
The Horse In Motion - The First Movie Ever Made
The Horse In Motion is considered the first commerical film released. The film is very basic and is just a horse running on the spot, but it would have amazed people that would have first seen it. The film was created by Eadweard Muybridge who was a photographer and studied motion projection. -
Ned Kelly is hung
Ned Kelly is one of Australia's most famous bushranger and is most famous for his trademark suit of armor. Ned Kelly and his gang conmitted numerous amounts of robberys and crimes. Ned Kelly was captured and hung at the Melbourne Goal. Approximately 30,000 there was signatures on the partition to keep Ned Kelly alive. -
The First Automobile 1885 - 1886
Karl Friedrich Benz is a German inventer who invented the world's first gasoline powered automobile. Benz went on the be a founder of the German car company Mercedes Benz. The automobile had three wheels and an internal combustion engine. The exact date of the first automobiles launch is unknown but it was invented in the years 1885 and 1886. -
The First Modern Summer Olympics
On the 6th of Apirl 1896 the First Modern Olmypics were held in Athens, Greece where the original Olympics were held many years before. There were 43 events held and only men were allowed to compete. The Olympics are still held to this day and is a very important time for many countries around the world. -
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers designed and built the first proplore powered flying machine ever. Although the plane flew for 12 seconds it was the first successful, powered, piloted flight in history. -
The First Ford Model T car was produced
The first Ford Model T was made on the 12th of August1908 by the Ford Motor Company. This car was considered the first affordable automoblie. The Ford Motor Company is named after Herny Ford the producer. -
The RMS Titnaic Sinks!
The construction of the Titnaic started in 31th of March 1909 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard. The ship was considered unsinkable. The maiden voyage of the Titanic was on the 10th of April 1912, sadly on the 15th of April 1912 the Titanic sunk killing 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. -
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip who was part of the Black Hand, a Serbian freedom fighter group. There was two failed assassination attempts by the Black Hand on the day Franz visited Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914. By mistake Franz's driver took a wrong turn and got lost, then the car stalled. It just so happened Gavrilo Princip was sitting in a cafe near where the car had stopped and opened fire on the car killing Franz and his wife Sophie. -
The Great War 1914
The assassination of Franz Ferdiand was the sprak that ingnited the flame when (list countries) started attacking each other for attacking countries that had special bond to each other. The war lasted for 4 years and was the bloodiest and most horrific war humans have ever faced. The amount of soldiers killed is astonishing. Weapons like the Maxim machine gun and the tank caused huge amounts of casutalites. The war ended on the 11th of November with Germany faced with all of the blame.
