Significant events in Australia & the Modern world

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  • Britain defeats France in the Seven Years' War

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  • James Watts invents the steam engine

  • The United States becomes a nation, declaring it's independence

  • The first fleet arrvies in Australia

  • The French Revolution Begins

  • Samuel Morse develops the first opperating telegraph system. a.k.a "Morse Code"

  • Potato Famine occurs in Ireland, which caused mass emigration

  • Australia's Gold Rushes begin

  • Slavery becomes illegal in the USA

  • The first telephone is tested

  • Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India

  • France declares Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as being apart of the Frech Union

  • World War 1 / 1914- 1918