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Apr 8, 1492
European Discovery of America
With the European discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus is 1492, a New World was born.
Christopher Columbus made four trips to new America.
Not long after that the population grew and they became there own country, they split away from England and Europe. They had enough people to start there own civilisation, so they did and they are now another country with there own language and there own accent -
Jun 21, 1500
Discovery of the Americas
In the early modern period, the voyages of Columbus initiated European exploration and colonization of the American continents, and are thus of great significance in world history. Christopher Columbus was a navigator and an admiral for Castile, a country that later founded modern Spain. He made four voyages to the Americas, with his first in 1492, which resulted in what is considered by European Americans as the Discovery of America or Discovery of the Americas. -
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The Enlightenment
The Enlightnement was a time when people started thinking outside the box and Scientist started coming about more interesting experiments. -
Trades
Huge trades between asia & Europe, for example Spices: Black pepper, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Ginger, cloves and cinnamon.
Healing properties helped better the taste of food -
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The Seven Year War
The Seven Years' War was a world war that took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven year period. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. -
French Revolution
The Revolution took shape in France when the controller general of finances, Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, arranged the summoning of an assembly of “notables” (prelates, great noblemen, and a few representatives of the bourgeoisie) in February 1787 to propose reforms designed to eliminate the budget deficit by increasing the taxation of the privileged classes. The assembly refused to take responsibility for the reforms and suggested the calling of the Estates-General, which represented the clerg -
First Fleet
As prisons were overflowing in England, it was decided that convicts could be transported to Australia. The First Fleet arrived in Australia on January 26 1788. They got moved to Australia to do work on making little huts and getting food for the guards. But when they first came over a lot of them started dieing because of disease's ans small pox. -
Myall Creek Massacre
On the 10th of June 1838, eleven convicts and ex-convicts rode onto the cattle station at Myall Creek, looking to round up any any Aboriginal people whom they suspected of having recently killed a European Shepherd... The eleven bounty hunters [tied] the group together and lead them to a nearby creek where they were all massacred, firstly by gunshot and then to save ammunition they finished it of with swords. Among the victums were old men and women with babies wrapped in pussom skins. -
Gold Rush
The first gold rush was May 1851. Edward Hargraves discovered gold in NSW, this was the start of many discoveries. The gold rushes caused large influxes of people from overseas so that equaled masses of international immigrations -
Birth of AFL
The Melbourne Football Club was the earliest AFL Club, formed on July 10, 1858. The first "unofficial" game of Australian Rules was played on Richmond Paddock (July 31st, 1858) and the first recorded match of Australian Rules Football was played on August 7, 1858 between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar. -
Chinese Migration
By 1861, the Chinese community was already thriving, making up nearly 7% of the Victorian population. Melbourne’s Little Bourke Street became a bustling centre for Chinese cultural and business activity.As the gold started running out, many Chinese settled as market gardeners or farm hands. -
Afghans in South Australia
After settlement of south Australia in 1836 they began exploring the interior, they had great difficulty walking along the sand for long periods of time. So Camels were imported.
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Migration from England
By 1901, well over 15 million people had migrated from England in search of a better life. Its all about the Pull and Push factors.
The push factors are the ones puching you away from your country making you want to move, and the pull factors are the ones pulling you into the country you want to go into.
Some people left England because of the Polution, starvation, unemployment and many more.
Some people left England because they wanted a new start or because of the new atmosphere. -
Poverty
Poverty was reality for unskilled workers, areas around factories were crowded and unhygienic. There was high rent so it forced families to cram in with each other, diseases were going around. Toilets were usually a tin bucket in the back yard. -
War Precaution
Under the War Precautions Act, the federal Government could make laws about anything that affected the war effort. This resulted in a dramatic increase in the range of federal regulations. -
Outbreak of WWI
WWI was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers. -
Smallpox Outbreak
In April 1789, just over fifteen months after the First Fleet of British convicts, sailors and marines had arrived in Port Jackson, the Aborigines of the Sydney region were seen to be dying in large numbers in the vicinity of the British settlement and up the harbour towards the Heads.
From the journals of the British in the First Fleet it is clear that they died from a smallpox virus, for the people of the First Fleet knew smallpox when they saw it.
