Modern World Timeline

By grigja802

  • Steam Engine

    1775 James Watt invents more efficiant steam engine

  • American Declaration

    American Declaration of independence announce the American indepdence from Great Britan.

  • Australia Founded

    First British convicts arives in Australia

  • Machines Smashed

    Textile workers smash machinery in factories and mills in the midlands and north of england.

  • Britain Demanding

    Publication of the people's Charter in Britan Demarding political reform

  • Gold in Australia

    Edward Hargraves discovers gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Australia.

  • More Convicts

    Convicts Transportation to Australia ceases with the last shipment of convicts disembarking in Western Australia

  • First Plane

    The Write Brothers invent first controlled powerd Man Carrying Flight

  • Model T

    Henry Ford produces his first Model T Automobile

  • Titanic Sinks

    The worlds Largest passenger steam ship hits a iceberg in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and sinks. 1517 people die.

  • WW II ends

    World War 2 ends with the defeat of Germany.

  • Railway

    George Stephenson builds the first passenger railway