1750-1918 major events

  • Industrial revolution

    The industrial revolution started around 1760 till 1820s
    The indutrial revolution was a new manufacturing processes.
    this transition included going from hard production to machines
  • Boston tea party

    The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773, when colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor. They did this because they didn't like the British tea taxes.
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    War broke out in 1775, the last major battle was in 1781, and the peace treaty officially ending the war came in 1783.The American Revolution was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America
  • America Gains Independace

    American Revolution America gains independance form England.
  • Australia signed independance

    Australia became independant, Until the 1940s Australian governments consistently pursued their foreign policy objectives within the framework of the British Empire
  • first fleet to Australia

    first fleet to Australia
    The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that left Great Britain, bound for Australia, on 13 May 1787. The passengers consisted of: 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, an additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts; the total number of free people was 348 and the total number of prisoners was 696, coming to a total of 1044 persons. The Fleet was sent to New South Wales as named by Captain Cook
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution
    French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, the revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789.
  • The Rights of Men

    The Rights of Men
    The Declaration of the Rights of Men showed that all men were equal and should be able to vote among the government issues.
  • Gold rush

    Gold rush
    The gold rushes in the second half of the 19th century completely changed the face of Australia. Before 1851, Australia’s combined white population was approximately 77,000. Most of those had been convicts sent by ship over the previous seventy years
  • American Civil War

    The American Civil War was also known as the War between the States. it started in1861 and finshed in 1865.
  • Imperialism

    Countries were taking over other, smaller and weaker, countries. This end about right when WWI started. This had a big imapact on history especially in Africa were everything basically changed including cultural, political, and economic systems
  • Scramble for Africa

    Scramble for Africa
    The Scramble for Africa (1880-1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn't have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going through.
  • Boer War

    The war was between the Transvaal Boers and the British.
    When the British annexed Transvaal in 1877 the Boers were angered.
  • setlement of Australia

    the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney to establish the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788
  • The creaton of the titanic

    The construction on the Titanic began on 31 March 1909.It took almost two years to complete the construction of the ship and after the final touches the ship was ready on 31 March, 1912.
  • sinking of the titanic

    sinking of the titanic
    The titanic sank on the border of America. The titanic sank after hitting in to an iceberg. The Titanic left Southampton, England on 10 of april, and was ment to arrive in New York on april 17th
  • A.F.F Assasinated

    A.F.F Assasinated
    Franz Ferdinand was very unpopular because he had made it clear that once he became Emperor he would make changes.
  • world war 1

    World War I was a global war in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939
  • American War of independence

    war of independence is a conflict occurring over a territory that has declared independence.