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Captain James cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) 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. In 1770 Cook arrived by boat in Botany Bay, Sydney.
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Boston Tea Party, People dressed up as Indians and threw tea of a ship causing the American Revolution
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The American Revoultion continued until 1783, the 3rd of September. Countries that were involved were USA, France, Spain, Sutch, Vermont, Great Britain.
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Independence Day is an American event where they celebrate the Declaration of Independence
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The French Revoulution started in 1789, They raided the Fort Bastille. 'The revolution was for to rid the king of his power'
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The end of the French Revoulution lasting 10 years!
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Alessandro Volta invented the battery, the battery stores electrical currents. The unit of electric potential is named 'Volt' Named after him.
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A 'typographer' is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper.
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Morse Code is a series of on-off tines, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.
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Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst in New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia. The gold rush attracted many countries from all around the place to this discovery.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first ever telephone!
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, he invented things such as the motion picture camera and invented the first practical incandescent electric light in 1879.
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In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge becoming the eighth wonder of the world opens. It was also the longest suspention bridge in 20 years, until 1903. It was 1825 metres long. It also had a width of 26 metres.
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Adolf Hitler was a bad person, he lead the Germans to over rule the Jews. He killed many helpless people. He was a German politition and leader of the Nazi party. Born on the 20th of April 1889, and died 30th April 1945.
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The Wright brothers designed a small, biplane glider flown as a kite to test, before making an actual plane and experimenting.
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in 1899, the Boers launched an attack against what they saw as an inevitable British takeover. The war lasted 3 years. British was a big part in the war.
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Thomas Alva Edison invents the Alkaline Battery. Alkaline batteries are a type of primary batteries dependent on the reaction between Zinc and Magnese Dioxide
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The Titanic was the largest passenger cruise ship for so long, people said it was 'unsinkable'. The titanic sunk just before midnight on April 14th due to a collision with an ice berg in the Atlantic Ocean As it sank, it snapped in two pieces and sank down into the big
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World War I started, also known as the Great War. Which they saw the end of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires.
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End of World War I, lasted 4 years, 11 months.
