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Eastern Australia Discovered
James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, and cartographer reached the south-eastern coast of Australia on April 18, 1770. His expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered Australia's eastern coastline. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
U.S. declared independence from Great Britain
On July 2, 1776, the Congress voted to declare independence from England. After two days of debate and some changes to the document, the Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This action represented a formal separation of the American colonies from Great Britian. -
Declaration of Independence was signed
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it. -
Ballarat Victoria Gold Rush
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860's. It led to the period of extreme prosperity of Australian colony, and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne, which was dubbed "Marvellous Melbourne" as a result of the procurement of welath. -
World War 1
Germany sought to break up the French-Russian alliance and was fully prepared to take the risk that this would being about a major war. Some in the German elite welcomes the prospect of beginning an expansionist war of conquest. The response of Russia, France, and later Britain were reactive and defensive. -
World War 1 ends
The treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War 1, was signed on June 28, 1919. The main authors of the treaty were leaders of France, England, Italy, and the United States. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
World War 2
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War 2. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. -
World War 2 ended
On September 2, World War 2 ended when U.S. General Douglass MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay along with a flotilla of more than 250 allied warships.