Making of the Modern World

  • Beginning of the first Industrial Revolution

    the process of change from agriculture to the city life
  • British settlement in Adventure bay

    started shore based whaling stations and took women with them
  • End of the Napoleonic War

    Napoleon and British concentrated on taking over the world
  • End date of the Age of Revolution

    society underwent a series of revolution in almost all theatres of life
  • Shootout at Stringy Bark Creek

    Ned Kelly killed 3 police officers that he thought would attack him
  • Beginning of the boxer rebellion

    started by peasants as an uprising against foreigners and the government slowly joined them
  • Battle of Beersheba

    starting at dusk members of the brigade stormed through Turkish forces and seized the strategic town called Beersheba