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A more efficent steam engine is produced
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American Declaration of Independence announces teh American colonies' independence from Great Britian
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The first fleet arrives in Bottany Bay, begining the British settlement in Australia
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Outbreak of the French Revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatifaction with the ruling aristocrats who levied taxes to support extravagent lifestyles
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Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store electrical current; the unit of electric potential, volt, is named after him
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George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester. It's the oldest surviving terminal railway station. It was the first inner-city pasenger railway.
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Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, trigering several gold rushes around Australia
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The american civil war ends with 620,00 dead.
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FEderation of australia- Six colonies of NSW, Queensland, South Australia, TAsmaina, Victoria and Western Australia form one nation
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In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, on December 17, 1903, at 10:30 am at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this airplane arose for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and flew a distance of 120 feet.
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The world's largest passenger steamship sinks. It hit an Iceberg on the Atlantic Ocean. 1517 died due to the boat sinking
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The Germans ended up losing the allies. On 11th November the leaders of both sides held a meeting in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne and they both signed Armisted five hour later.
