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Britain ordered tis convicts to be transported to the newly discovered continent of Australia.
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Men, Women and the National Guard marched on the Bastille, searching for gunpowder, ammunition and guns to free the prisoners taken by Louis XVI.
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Napolean Bonaparte led his troops to take Egypt and discover some of its secrets. While in the town of Rashid (known as Rosetta to Eurpeans) the French discovered the Rosetta Stone.
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The first Steam Locomotive was designed by Richard Trevithick and was built at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks.
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The first known landing on the continent of Antarctica was by Captain John Davies.
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Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb and helped shape the modern world.
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The Australian Gold Rush began when Edward Hargraves claimed he had discovered a grain of gold in a water hole in Bathurst.
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Edwin Drake was the first to commercially drill using an oil rig.
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As Abrham Licoln took office, the stirrings of civil war began. When Licoln ordered Sumter to be resupplyed the Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War.
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The Melbourne Cup is always set for the first Tuesday in November. Seventeen horses ran the First Melbourne Cup.
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The Gatling Gun was first patented by Richard John Gatling.
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Exhausted by the siege of Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederates made a desperate attempt to take Fort Stedman but were immediately counter-attacked. The Confederate surrendered after a long chase however Lincoln was assassinated by a Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, on the eve of vitory.
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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Wurttemburg, Germany
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The first patent issued for the light bulb was by Thomas Edison towards the end of 1879.
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John Pemberton was an Atlanta pharmacist and out of simple curiosity, created a caramel scented liquid and carried to his neighbours asking them to try. They said it was delicious and he began selling it at Jacobs' pharmacy for 5 cents a glass
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The First Modern Day Olympics were held in Athens, Greece due to the fact the olympics originated in Greece. Fourteen countries participated in the first Modern Day Olympics.
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Under an act of the British Parliament, England decreed that the six colonies of Australia would be able to govern themselves and be under the constitutional monarchy or the British Commonwealth.
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The first production model of the Ford model T was assembled in the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
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On its very first voyage the Titanic sunk. This came as a shock to a great deal of people as the Titanic had been deemed unsinkable.
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Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria and was the heir to the Austia-Hungarian Empire. During a visit to the capital of Bosnia he was assassinated by a terorists group known as the Black Hand, sparking WWI.
