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The Encyclopedia
Diderot published the first Encyclopedia. Definitely his best work. This was a great learning tool that could be translated to any language around the world. -
Carbon dioxcide
Scottish chemist Joseph Black discovers carbon dioxide and later the latent heat of fusion. -
American declaration of independence
amrican declaration of independence announces the seperation of American colonies from Great Britain. -
1st fleet arrive botany bay
The first fleet was the name given to 11 ships that left great britian, bound for Australia on 13th may 1787. The first fleet carried English convicts. -
French revolution
The french revolution began due to high bread prices and dissatifaction of the ruling of the upper classes who applied high taxes -
Napolean comes to power
Napolean was a French military how was later ranked up to Emperor of france during the French revolution -
Alessandro volta battery
Alessandro volta creates first battery that is able to store an electrical current. -
Waterloo
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo -
George stephson first passenger railway
George Stephenson creates and builds the first passenger railway between the two cities in England Liverpool and Manchester. -
Edward Hargraves discovers gold in Australia
Edward Hargraves finds some gold near Bathhurst, beggining numerous gold rushes around Australia including the Ballarat gold rush being one of the most famous and populur. -
Germ theory is born
Louis Pasteur shows that disease is spread from tiny, little organisms, instead of bad vapors -
American civil war
The amarican civil war or the War between the states was a war fought between 1861 and 1865. The war began due to slavery, After 4 years of fights slavery was gone and the war concluded. -
Modern genetics
Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel lays the foundation for modern genetics -
Rabies cure
A nine year old boy was bitten by a dog and diagnosed with rabies, A man by the name of Louis Pasteur gave the boy a vaccine witch cured the young boy. -
Birth of Adolf Hitler
This event effects the world due to the fact that this is the man that run the Nazi party and wanted to exterminate certain races including the Jews. HE is estimated to kill a total of 11 million people! -
federation of Australia
The six colonies NSW, VIC, SA, TAS, WA and QLD form one nation -
Wright brothers invent man carrying flight
Two brother orville and wilbur wright invent the first controlled, powered, man carrying flight. -
Russo-Japanese war
Japanese sink half the Russian fleet in the opening move of the Russo-Japanese war. The Russians badly underestimate the modern Japanese fleet which a year later destroys most of the remaining navy. -
Sinking of Titanic,North Atlantic ocean
The worlds then largest passanger steamship sinks due to coliding with an iceberg in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people die due to the collition. -
Start of WW1
World war 1 began on July 28,1914, when Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia
