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Karl Marx
DOB: 18th July 1818. Death. 1883.
Karl Marx Was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, and is with no doubt was the most revolutionary social thinker of the 19th century. -
Henry Higgins
DOB. 30th June 1851. Death: 13th January 1929.
Henry Higgins was an Irish politician and judge who migrated to Australia in 1870. He was Most remembered for his harvester judgement which intruduced a minimum wage for unskilled workers. -
William Hughes
DOB. 25 September 1862. Death:28 October 1952
William Hughes was an English born Australian Prime minister. He spent 58 years in parliament and 7 of those as prime minister. He was most well known for supporting compulsary war deployments. -
Vida Goldstein
DOB: 13th April 1869 Death:15th August 1949
Vida Goldstein was an early Australian political feminist and also the first woman in Australia to stand for govenment. She was most famous for her contribution to bring equal rights between men and women in Australia. -
Sir Robert Menzies
DOB: 20 December 1894 Death:15 May 1978
Robert Menzies was a politician who served as Australian prime minister for a total of 17 years. With this number, he is still to this day the longest serving prime minister of Australia. -
Enid Lyons
DOB: 9 July 1897 Death: 2nd September 1981
Enid Lyons was an Australian Polititian. She famously was the first woman accepted in the house of representatives. She was also wife of former prime minister Joseph Lyons. -
Emperor Hirohito
DOB: April 29, 1901 Death: January 7, 1989
Emperor Hirohito, was the longest reigning monarch in Japans history. He was looked upon so highly in Japan that even after he surrendered Japan in WWII, he was allowed to retain his position as emperor; -
Douglas Nicholls
DOB: 9th December 1906 Death: 4th June 1988
Doug Nicholls was one of the most prominant aboriginals of his time. He was a proffessional athlete and a pastor. Later on in his life he became a polititian and was the first aboriginal to be knighted by the queen. -
World War 1
World war 1 was the first ever global war, it was mainly faught in europe and was faught between the Allied Powers, consisting of France, Britain, Russia, Italy, United States, Australia and others, and the Central Powers, Consisting of Germany, The Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary and bulgaria. It was faught between 28th of July, 1914 and the 11th of November 1918. Over 9'000'000 military personel were killed. This number of casualties was by far the highest of any war preceeding it. -
Gallipoli
On the 25th of April 1915 tragedy struck on what is now known as ANZAC cove in Gallipoli, Turkey. An attempted tactical move to capture the Dardanelles and therefore regain communications with Russia went horribly wrong. The ANZACS had landed on the wrong side of Gallipoli, and as a result of this tactical error they were ambushed by the waiting Turkish troops. Thousands of the ANZACS were killed or wounded and this day, April 15th would forever be remembered as ANZAC day. -
Russian Revolution
The russian revolution led to the creation of the Soviet Union by disposing of the Tsar Autocracy which did not allow the citizens of Russia to have any say on how the country was run. The first revolution was in March that year when the Imperial Parliament took control of St. Petersberg, Nicolas' II army did not have the resources to supress such an attack. -
The great depression
The great depression started in 1930 and lasted until the middle 40’s. It was caused by the 1929 stock market crash and several bank failures around that time. Another leading factor leading to the great depression was the Tariff act of 1930 which was sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley. Personal income, tax revenue, retail prices and living conditions were all affected negatively making this period of time one of the most difficult to live through of all time. -
Day of Mourning
The day of Mourning was held be the Aboriginals of Australia, in protest of 150 years of bad treatment and seizure of land. It was set on this particular day to stand in contrast of Australia day, which was celerated by the European migrants of Australia. -
World War 2
World war 2 was faught between The Axis and the Allied Forces between 1st of September 1939 and 2nd of September 1945 latsing six years and one day. Nearly 25 million military units were killed and nearly twich as many civilians were casualties of the war making it the first war in which the number of civilian deaths outnumbered the number of military deaths in a war. Some key commanders in the war were Adolf Hitler, Hirohito, and Benito Mussolini in the Axis forces, and Franklin Roosevelt. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was Faught between the communist and non-communist forces between 1955 and 1975. The communist forces tried to take over the non-communist part of Vietnam, and as United states feared the communist expantion they sent troops in and the Vietnam War began. The war was ended in 1975 in the battle of Saigon. -
Freedom Ride (USA)
The freedom rides of America were a series of anti-segregation protests held by the blacks and whites in the 1960s. The first one was on the 4th of May 1961 where buses full of the 'Freedom riders' rode buses throught the south of America to promote. This involved a lot of violence against them. -
Freedom Ride (Australia)
In 1964, a group of students form Sydney university organised a bus tour of Eastern New South Wales to acheive one main goal. To draw public attention to the poor living conditions and education of the Aboriginal Population of Australia. This protesting resulted in the NSW government putting in 100'000 dollars into indegeonous housing. -
Wave Hill Protest
The malnourished, underpaid Indegeonous workers of the Wave Hill Cattle station, walked off the job in protest. Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji spokesman led the 200 men and their families and set up camp in a nearby river. As a result of this protest, Prime Minister Whitlam appointed funding towards the indegeonous owning their own cattle station. Lord Vestey also offered to surrender 90 square km to the Aborignes. -
The Dismissal of Whitlam.
In political whirlwind of activity the senate and the Governer- General Sir john Kerr contravertially abused their power to oust the Whitlam Government.
