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The Triangular Trade
The Triangular Trade was the trade route from Europe to Africa to America and then back to Europe in a cycle to maximize profits with slaves, raw materials and goods. Europe recieved raw materials, Africa recieved goods and America recieved slaves to help harvest the raw materials. -
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The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was an era where technologies were greatly improved, some examples are the improvement of the steam engine, the improvement of the flushing toilet and the improvements in vessels/boats. The Industrial Revolution was really split into two sections, the first started in 1712 and ended in 1830, this was the era of textiles and steam, the second was the time of electricity and chemical discovery and improvement from 1830 to 1905. -
Boston Tea Party
Great Britian were taxing American colonists but giving nothing in return, this became an American rallying cry of 'no taxes without representation'. So when the British government declined the offer to remove the taxing on tea the American colonists dumped a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. -
James Watt's Steam Engine (The Industrrial Revolution)
James Watt made major improvements to the steam engine (between 1763 and 1775) that was originally designed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. Watt's improvements were the engine requiring 75% less coal and it was now a portable engine. These steam engines were used to power factories. -
The American Declaration of Independence
13 British American colonies declared independence from Britian in the Declaration of Independence. This stated that all men are created as equal and all men are entitled to certain rights. -
The First Fleet Arrives at Botany Bay
The First Fleet was made up of 11 ships and was carrying roughly 1500 people made of convicts male and female, naval officers and their families and other staff onboard the ships. The voyage from England took 252 days to travel to Botany Bay where it was said to be to unsuitable for settlement do their journey continued for another 7 days down to what is now known as Sydney Harbor. The captain of the vessel was Captain Arthur Phillip. -
The French Revolution 1787 - 1799
The French Revolution, the Seven Years War and involvement in the American War of Independence ment the French were still trying to cope with the costs that these wars were associated with. Louis XVI was in power at the time and was eventually veiwed as a symbol of tyranny. So the people took a stand and so the French Revolution started with the Storming of the Bastille during the riots in Paris in 1789. -
The Holey Dollar and the Dump
New South Wales had an extreme shortage of currency and had requested currency relief from London. London purchased and had 40,000 Spanish Dollars sent to Sydney Cove. These coins arrived on the 26th of November, 1812. To have a larger value and smaller value coin in currency the coins had a hole punched in the middle and the middle piece of the coin was called the dump. The Holey dollar was worth 5 shillings and the dump was worth 15 pence. From early 1822 these coins were recalled. -
The Australian Gold Rush (Ballarat)
Gold! In August 1851 gold was discovered in Ballarat, Vic. Just one month after in september there was already almost 1000 miners prospecting for gold and in two years time there was over 20,000 miners of different nationalities working the land. In just five years 87,700,000 grams of gold was taken tothe Melbourne Treasury. The gold rush peaked in 1868, supporting 300 companies and had a settlement estimated at 64,000. The Gold Rush came to an end in 1918 when the last mine in Ballarat closed. -
The Eureka Stockade
On the goldfields things were very tense between the diggers and the authorities because the miners were sick of the licence they needed to possess to prospect for gold. Conflict had occurred many times. Crowds of miners burnt their licences and built a stockade around about an acre of gold fields including the Eureka diggings. When the stockade was attacked by the authorities on the 3rd of December 1854, the conflict lasted 20 minutes with 22 miners and 5 police troops killed. -
The Welcome Nugget
The Red Hill Mine in Ballarat was where this monster gold nugget was found by the night shift on the 9th of June 1858. The gold nugget was so large that it took an hour and a half to haul it to the surface where it was wieghed, it's total weight was 2,217 ounces and it's purity was 99.6% pure gold. It was sold for 10,050 pounds, taken to London and not long after it was melted down to make gold soverigns. -
The Gatling Gun
Richard Jordan Gatling was the inventor of the Gatling Gun which fires 350 shots per minute. He succeeded in his work on the gun in 1862 although it was not used by any authorities or military until the Civil War was almost over, but after it was accepted and used by one nation, most other nations had adopted it into their military within 10 years of it's creation. -
The First Grand Slam 1877 (Tennis)
England created the first major tennis tournament with Wimbledon the most prestigious tennis tournament of the first of the four major anual tournaments, starting in 1877. In 1881 America created the second of the four major tournaments in the grand slam. 1891 was when the French started the third major tournament in the rapidly growing game. The last of the four major tournaments was the Australian Open which was first established in 1905. -
The Hanging of Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly, 'Australia's most famous bushranger' the son of an Irish ex-convict, who stood up against the corrupted authorities and fought for what he believed was right with his brother 'Dan Kelly' and their friends 'Joe Byrne' and 'Steve Hart' they formed 'The Kelly Gang'. In the town of Glenrowan, Victoria, Australia in June 1880, 'The Kelly Gang' were finished off by the police, Ned was the only survivor with many leg wounds, in the Melbourne Goal he was tried and was finally hanged. -
Coca Cola
Coca-Cola was first made in Atlanta, sold for 5 cents a glass at Jacobs' Pharmacy. John Pemberton was an Atlantic pharmacist, who out of curiosity created a caramel-coloured liquid which he mixed with carbonated water to created Coca Cola. -
The First Modern Olympics
The First Modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece. It opened on the 6th of April 1896 by his majesty King George the 1st and closed on the 15th of April 1896. The First Modern Olympics had 241 athletes competing across 43 events. -
The First Heavier-then-air Flight
The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville) were the first to create an areoplane that flew and had controlled flight. Their aeroplane took to the sky in Kittyhawk on the 17th of December 1903. -
Amundson's South Pole Expidition
The first expidition to sucessfully reach the south pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundson. Amundson and his team left in June 1910, they set up their Antarctic base in the Bay of Wales, the base was called "Framheim". The party set out for the south pole in October 1911 and arrived at the South Pole on the 14th of December 1911. -
The Titanic
The RMS Titanic was said to be unsinkable, a display of modern technology. This was proven to be wrong on the 14th of April 1912 just 4 days after it had first set sail from Southampton, England on its way to New York City when it struck an iceberg and sunk early in the next morning. Many people died, roughly 1500. Still now more than 100 hundred years later it is still remember through film, images and books. -
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The First World War officialy started in August 1914 but was triggered by the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on the 28th of July 1914. This led to a chain of events that sparked the first world war.
