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The Encyclopedia was Published between 1750 and 1772 by Denis Diderot.
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James Watt designs a more effienct steam engine.
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The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, beginning British settlement in Australia.
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Alessandro Volta made the first battery to hold electricity in 1800.
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Textile Workers smash machinery in factories and mills in the midlands and north of england.
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George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester.
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Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, Triggering several gold rushes around Australia.
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Convict transportaion to Australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in Western Australia.
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In the year 1872. It was sighted by Ernest Giles. He was the first white person to see it
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Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright acheive the first controlled, powered, man-carrying flight.
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Henry Ford produces his first Ford model T automobile in the year 1908.
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World War 1 ends with the defeat of Germany.The war started in 1914 and ended in 1918 between Germany and Austria-Hungary.