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The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial revolution was a shift in time (1750 to 1850) were people made machines to do peoples jobs for them, so instead of someone sitting there sewing they would build these huge factories with machines sewing, this led to industries going out of business and thousands of people losing their jobs. -
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Australian History
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Captain Cooks explores the Australian Coast
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The First Fleet
In 1788 England sent 162,000 convicts to Australia in 806 ships. The first eleven of these ships are to today known as the first fleet. They contained convicts and soldiers that are believed to be the founders of Australia. -
Tasmania was declared an Island
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Mathew Flinders completes the first voyage around Australia
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Australias First Bank
The Bank of New South Wales was founded in Sydney as the first bank in Australia on 8 April 1817 by the Governor at the time Governor Lachlan Macquarie. -
The Australian Gold Rush
Edward Hargraves was believed to have found the first gold in a Bathurst River with a sive. The word spread fast and soon there were hundreds of people there digging for gold. At the peak of the gold rush there were 2000 people there. -
Victoria Separates from New South Wales
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Last Convicts shipped to Tasmania
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Van Diemans Land changes it name to Tasmania
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First Australian Rules Game Invented
In 1858 Cricketers Thomas Wills and his cousin Henry Harrison invented Australian Rules Football to keep themselves and other cricketers fit during winter. Melbourne football club was the first club established and back then they played with a round ball. -
Convict Transportation to Australia
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Ned Kelly hanged
Ned Kelly is Australia’s equivalent of Robin Hood. Pictures of Ned Kelly in his suit-of-armour is a vivid part of Australia’s legend. Ned Kelly’s career of mayhem and murder only lasted 3 years, and he was only 26 years old when he was hanged. -
Henry Ford makes the first automobile
His first car, finished in 1896, was built in a little brick shed in his garden. Driven by a two-cylinder, four-cycle motor, it was mounted on bicycle wheels. The car had no gears or brakes. By August, 1899, he had raised enough money to start his own company he named his company Ford. -
Australia became a Federation
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First Federal Flag Design
In 1901 the Prime minister declared there would be a competition to see who could make the best design for the Australian fllag. If you won the Competition you won 200 pounds, back then 200 pounds was about $200,00 these days. -
The first powered aeroplane flies in Australia
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WW1 begins
The assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro Hungray, by a Serbian nationalist led Russia to support Serbia and Germany to support Hungray. This conflict was later known as the Central Powers known as Germany, Austro Hungray and Italy versus the Allies made up of Russia, Serbia, Britain and France. This was known as World War One and was largley brought about by fears created through armies expanding Empires and protecting Allies -
ANZAC day
On this day ninty seven years ago Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed an allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula. When they landed in Gallipoli were slaughtered by the Turkish defenders. The war lasted for 8 months and 8,000 australians died and soon the 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in the war. -
WW1 ends
. After over four years of bloody conflict, the Great War was at an end.
