History 1750-1918

By carnea914

  • American Declaration Of Independence

    American Declaration Of Independence announces the American colonies independence from Great Britain.

  • First Fleet

    The First Fleet arives in Botany bay, which then beggining British settlment in Australia.

  • First Battery

    Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store electrical current, the unit of electic potential, volt, is named after him.

  • Passenger Railway

    George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester, England.

  • New Zealand

    New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty Of Waitangi is singed by Maroi and Brithish

  • Gold Rush

    Edwards Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, causing several gold rushes in Australia especialy in Ballarat Victoria.

  • American Civial War

    United States engaged in a civil war. Divisions between the free North and the slaveholding South erupted into a full-scale conflict after the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860.

  • USA Buys Alaska

    The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for 116 million US dollars.

  • Federation Of Australia

    The six colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia form one nation.

  • First Flight

    Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright achive the first controlled, powered, man-carrying flight

  • First Ford Model

    Henry Ford produces his First Model T automobile

  • World War 1

    World War 1 ends with defeat of Germany