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The French and Indian War begins as Britain declares war on France in the American colonies.
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British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded in a French and Indian ambush near Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania. Twenty-three year-old George Washington assumes command of the retreating army of British and colonial troops.
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The French at Quebec, Canada surrender to the British.
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james watt designs a more efficent steam engine
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the commettie that drafted the american declaration of independence: [i to r ] thomas jefferson roger sherman benjamin franklin robert R Livingston and john adams
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the 1st fleet arrives in Botany Bay beginning of the Brittish settlement in Australia
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citizens of paris headed by the national guards storm the bastille prison on the 14 july 1789. this event has come to repersent the start of the French Revolution
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Alessandro Valta invents a battery to store electical curren the unit of electric potential volt is named after him
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textile workers smash machinery in factoies and mills in the midlands and north of England because they think it will take there jobs
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George Stepherson buils the first passenger railway between liverpool and Manchester
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January 29, 1850 - Debate on the future of slavery in the territories escalates when Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. On March 7, Senator Daniel Webster endorses the bill as a measure to avert a possible civil war.
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The gold rush completely changed that however. In the two years that followed Edward Hargraves’ discovery at Bathurst, Australia’s population increased to over 540,000. 370,000 immigrants arrived in Australia’s ports during the year 1852 alone.
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May 1, 1851 - The United States of America participates in the opening ceremony of the first World's Fair in history, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, in the Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton, in Hyde Park, London, England. The world's fair becomes the first major gathering of the works of nations in one location under the idea of Prince Albert and support of Queen Victoria.
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Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
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On the evening of July 30, anarchist Angelo Bresci shot the king of Italy, King Umberto I, three times. The assassination was in retaliation for a violently crushed 1898 labor revolt. His son, Victor Emmanuel III, succeeded him.
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September 6, 1901, U.S. President William McKinley spent the morning visiting Niagara Falls with his wife before returning to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in the afternoon to spend a few minutes greeting the public.