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The key complaint of the American colonists was that they were being taxed too highly by the government.So they rallied against the government,
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James Watt designs a more efficient steam engine. He got the idea as a kid when he saw his mother make a cup of tea by boiling the water and steam rising from the kettle.
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The American Declaration of Independence announces the American colonies independence from Great Britian.
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The First Fleet arrives in Botany bay, beginning British settlement in Australia.
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A treaty in Paris was signed to formally end the war, and recognised the USA as controlling an area from the Canadian border to Florida.
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Outbreak of the French Revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling of aristocrats who levied high taxes to support extravagent lifestyles.
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Volta invents a battery to store electrical current; the unit of electric potential, volt, is named after him.
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Textile workers smash machinery in factories and mills in the midlands and north of England.
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Stephenson builds the first passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester.
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The Publication of The Peoples Charter in Britian demading political reform, including the right to vote for every man from the age of 21,
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hargreaves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia.
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Richard Gatling patents the Gatling Gun.
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American Civil War ends with about 620,000 people died.
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Convict transportation to Australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in Western Austrlia.
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Worlds first National park proclaimed at Yellowstone in the USA,
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Thomas Edison unveils electric light system.
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Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first controlled, powered, man carrying flight.
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Henry Ford produces his first Ford Model T automibile.
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The worlds men largest passenger steamship, the Titanic, hits an iceberg in the north west Atlantic Ocean sinks: 1517 people die.
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World War 1 ends with the defeat of Germany.
