key events for the past 100 years

By Mitchell.P

  • communist revoloution

    communists revolution in Russia and its empire creates several new countries that are known as the unin soviet soccialist Republics (USSR) and under the leadership of Vladmir Lenin

  • Treaty of versailles

    Treaty of versailles

  • 1923-37

    In the Uk, Stanely Baldwin (a conservative) and Ramsay MacDonald (Labour Leader) swap the prime ministership Several times

  • first radio broadcst in Australia

    Australia's first radio broadcast takes place in Sydney

  • Demonstration of worlds first television transmission

    James Logie Baird demonstarates the World's first television transmission

  • The Jazz Singer

    begins the era of 'talking pictures' and the end of silent movies

  • Coniston Massacre

    60 or more Aboriginal people killed in revenge attacks by police and others in the northern Territory after the murder of a white dingo trapper- one of the last of such large-scale revenge massacres

  • Japan invasion, Melbourne cup winner

    Japan invades Manchuria in China, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup

  • 1932-33

    English Cricket team devises 'bodyline bowling' to beat the run-scoring talents of Don Bradman

  • Last thylacine dies

    the last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in captivity dies in Hobart

  • Black Friday

    Bushfires n Victoria kill 71 people and destroys five towns