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Textile Industry
The Textile Industry started in the early 1718. This was an important event in history because, it started out having women and children making the clothes. But then later on, it started to advance and it then started powering off water. -
The French and Indian war began
The french and Indian war was an important event because, it was a war that determined that wether the french/brittish would win the land or would the natives keep their own land. The war started out the british wanting the french land in North America but soon spreaded toward the Native lands. -
Catherine The Great
The Russian empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. She expanded the Russian Empire, improved administration, and was happy to pursue the policy of Westernization (the process of changing to western ideas and traditions). Under her rule Russia grew strong and rivaled the great powers of Europe and Asia. -
Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War
The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution War between Great Britian and North America and all of the allies for both countries. It stopped the killing and no more lives were lost. -
James Watt
James Watt invented a more efficent steam train. -
American revolution begins
This was when the 13 colonies decidied to break away from the British Empire and gain their indepence. To become a nation of their own. The American Revolution was a very poliltcal important event because it was when America became a nation of its own. -
Illuminati is founded
The Illuminati conspiracy is a conspiracy which holds that there is a "global elite" society that is either in control of the world or is seeking to take control of the world. It reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of ten years. -
Declaration of Independence
In 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America adopts the Declaration of Independence, which makes America a new United States Of America away from Great Britain and its king. -
The First Fleet
The first fleet arrived in Botany bay in 1787. It had more than 1480 men, women and children on board. Although most were British, there were also African, American and French convicts. -
French Revolution
For centuries, the quality of life in Europe had been determined by the leader. If you were born in a poor family, your life would be one of poverty.Those at the bottom saw the wealthy grow richer, while the poor got nothing. Then, in 1776, something unthinkable happened. A group of people at the bottom of society rebelled against those who were at the top, and what was more remarkable, they won. This made all the poor rebell against the rich and made the french society a fair society. -
The Delcaration of the Rights of Men
The Declaration of the Rights of Men showed that all men were equal, and should be able to vote among the government issues. It allowed people to come forth and vote who they think would be right for a president or an issue among the laws. -
Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is important because it produced clother faster than a human could so it saved slaves work. Eli Whitney was the inventor of the Cotton Gin. This machine sepreated the cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. Also, this machine could remove over 50 pounds of cotton per day, when only one worker could remove a pound a day. -
Industrial Revolution
The industrial Revolution is the time when the economic began to grow, new markets arrived, changes in the way goods were transported, and also improved the communcations and social structe of factorys. This broght new opportunities into the trades like communicating aross the world and importing and exporting. -
George Stphenson builds first passenger railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the world's first twin-track inter-city passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and ticketed. -
Crimean War
The Crimean War took place between October 1853 and 1st February 1856. Britain, France and Turkey were fighting against Russia over an area of land called the Crimean Peninsula, beside the Baltic Sea. On 25th October 1854, the Battle of Balaclava took place. During the battle, the British 'Light Brigade' of cavalry charged the main Russian army by mistake. Out of 673 men, there were 278 casualties. -
Karl Benz
Karl Benz invented the modern automobile, but long before him, there were strange forerunners to the today's cars, including toys for emperors, steam-powered artillery carriers, and clanking, creaking British buses. -
Federation of Australia
Becoming a federation is the joining of the states and becoming one nation. In the 1800s Australia was made up convicts and brittish colonies. Later on the idea on being Australian came out through poems and songs. -
Titanic Sinks
Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on the night of April 14, 1912 and sunk just over two-and-a-half hours later, At around 2.20am on the morning of 15 April, RMS Titanic disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a disaster that resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives, almost two-thirds of the people on board. -
Assatination of Atchduke Franz Ferdinard
On the 28th of june 1914 Atchduke and his wife were assasinated after already surviving an assasination attempt that day. He was driving in his car and they both were assainated his last words were "its nothing". -
WW1 Begins
Start of World War 1 World War 1 started because, the heir of Austria-Hungary Archduke Francis Ferdinand was killed, and Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia. Later, Germany declared war on France. Throughout the whole war many soliders died of posions, toxics and gun wounds. This war impacted the world because, so many soliders died in the war familys were ripped apart, 14 year old boys went to war and didn't come home i think that wars are just sad.
