Australia and the world 1750 to 1918

By JacksonRichards

  • The invention of the Spinning Jenny

  • James Cook lands in Botany Bay

  • The first fleet arrives at Port Jackson

  • The Storming of the Bastille

  • The official opening of The Great Exhibition

  • Commodore Mathew Perry lands in Tokyo harbour and forces Japan to open their markets to trade with America

  • The Eureka Stockade - a battle in Ballarat, Australia between gold miners and the authorities

  • Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Federation in Australia

  • The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand