Significant events 1750 - 1918

By celinemichelleseabrook

  • The Industrial Revolution

    • changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation and technology had an effect on social, economic and cultral conditions.
    • started in Britain.
    • 1750 - 1850

  • The French Revolution

    • 1787 - 1799
    • increasing of wealthy commoners
    • wealthy people and peasents
    • crop failures
    • period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had lasting impact on their society

  • The First Fleet leaves Britain

    • left Portsmouth in May 1787, and arrived in Australia in January 1788.
    • England waas becoming too crowded and so convicts were sent to Australia by boat
    • there was about 750 convicts onboard

  • Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are beheaded

    LOUIS: 21st January 1793
    MARIE ANTOINETTE: October 1793 - marie antoinette was dislike because of her austrian heritage (she was queen of France) and because of her extravagance during a time when peasants were starving

  • New Holand is now called Australia

    -Around 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, arguably the most influential man in Australia at the time, also requested that the name "Australia" be officially ascribed.

  • Australian Gold Rush occurs

    • Edward Hargraves claimed the discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, New South Wales
    • eight months later, gold was found in Ballarat and Bendigo, Victoria.
    • Australia's total population increased from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871

  • The last convicts are shipped to Australia

    -last convicts to be transported to Australia arrived in Western Australia in 1868
    -in 1852 alone, 370,000 immigrants arrived in Australia.
    -By 1871 the total population had nearly quadrupled from 430,000 to 1.7 million people.

  • The Stolen Generation

    • Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions.
    • The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although in some places children were still being taken until the 1970s
    • Governors ordered the removal of any child to a reformatory or industrial school. The Protection Board can remove children from station families to be housed in dorm

  • Ned Kelly is hanged

    -He was convicted of three counts of capital murder and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880.
    - 'such is life'

  • Adolf Hitler is born

    -20 April 1889
    Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary
    -Hitler and Braun committed suicide in 1945

  • The Boxer Rebellion occurs in China

    • also known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists"
    • peasant uprising
    • eight nation alliance formed against China.

  • Australian Federation is formed

    -process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation.
    -Sir Edmund Barton was the caretaker Prime Minister of Australia at the inaugural Federal election in 1901, at which he retained his office

  • The Titanic sinks

    • sank in the North Atlantic ocean
    • collided with an iceberg
    • caused the deaths of 1,502 people
    • the boat came from Southhampton, UK to New York City, US

  • The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand sparks WW1

    • Shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.
    • WW1 began after this assassination

  • World War One ends

    -28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 (Armistice)
    - Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China and off the coast of South and North America
    -as a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918
    -World War or the Great War