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Children were sold to work in factories. Many died or were injuried during working in this period
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The revolution was against the British as America wanted inderpendence. American politions signed a Declaration of Inderpendence, this ment that America became an Inderpendant nation.
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James Watt designs a more efficent steam engine
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The American Decleration of Independence announces the American's colonies independence from Great Brittain
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Born on the 7th of November 1728. Captain James Cook first arrived on the Australian east coast on the 19th of April 1770
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Countries included are Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa.
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The First Fleet arives in Botany Bay, beginning Brittish Settlement in Australia
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Outbreak of the French Revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling aristocrats who levied high taxes to support extravagent life styles
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Allesandro volta invents a battery to store electrical current; the unit of potential, volt, is named after him
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Thomas Jefferson signed a bill declearing slave trade to be abolished in the US
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Queen Victoria of the House of Hanover married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha on the 10th of February 1840. She and Albert had nine children together.
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George Stephenson buils the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester
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Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst NSW triggering several gold rushes around Australia
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300 Brittish men fought the stockade. The stockade was only protected by less than 100 men, the rebellion was defeated.
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Federation of Australia - the six colonies of NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC and WA for one nation
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Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright acheive the first controlled, powered, man - carrying flight
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Henry Ford Makes his FIrst Ford Model T automobile
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The world's then largest passenger steamship, the Titanic hits an iceberg in north- west Atlantic ocean and sinks; 1517 people die
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One of the most famous battles of World War One is the Battle of Gallipoli.
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World War One Finishes
