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The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is the focus of rational thinking. People started to disobey and challenge their own religion, and stopped believing in the Church. The Enlightenment is where intellectual, scientific and cultural life developed, it centered upon the seventeenth and eighteenth century. -
Convicts
During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a large number of convicts were forced migrate to Australia. Life of a convict was very harsh. Many of the convicts sent to New South Wales were serving a seven to fourteen year sentence for the crimes they have committed such as robbery. They were forced to work for 10 hours each day, from sunrise to sunset. Convicts were tied up in chains and were meagre rations. Some convicts worked for free settlers. -
The Enlightenment
Instead of listening to their Kings, Queens and the Church they started to believe in science, and their selves. The society started to think more critically about things, instead of guessing they had to find evidence.
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Yr9 History timeline
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Captain Cook dicovers the southern-east coast of Australia
Captain James Cook discovered the southern-east coast of Australia, in the year 1770. Captain Cook was chosen to organise a voyage; this is what caused him to explore the globe. So he explored the southern-east coast of Australia, he discovered this and named it Botany-Bay. Captain Cook took possession of the whole eastern coast and naming it New South Wales, Captain Cook claimed the eastern coast under instruction of King George III of England on 22 August 1770. -
The Second Fleet
The Second Fleet consisted of 6 ships. The convicts in each ship were mistreated, rations were poor and sickness was common. Two hundred and fifty eight convicts died during the voyage. The arrival of the last ship in the Second Fleet on 28 June 1790 meant that the struggling settlement in New South Wales had an extra 759 mouths to feed. The Second Fleet was a disaster compared to the First Fleet. -
Governor Lachlan Macquarie
When Macquarie became governor in 1810, the clashes between the settlers and Aboriginal people increased. Governor Macquarie believed that the best way to treat Aboriginal people was to ‘civilise’ them. That meant replacing the aboriginal’s way of life to the Europeans ways. Macquarie tried to put their children away from their families to school because he thought this was the right thing to do. -
Governor Lachlan Macquarie
But many left and returned to their tribe after a short time. Macquarie educated them in dormitories. He tried to make them farmers. His attempts failed because Aboriginal people did not want to become farmers. After all his failures he made laws to place Aboriginal people under British control. -
The gender imbalance in New South Wales
In the year 1830-1840 there was a gender imbalance in New South Wales. Many poor, single men were attracted to the wide open spaces of Australia and the thought of owning enough land to become wealthy. To deal with this problem the government introduced the bounty scheme, which was designed to attract more married couples and young women to Australia. -
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie PART3
As the bomb exploded the other assassins of the Black Hand thought that they were dead and failed to assassinate Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. After arriving in the City Hall they changed their plans, and wanted to visit the hospital. As the driver was driving he took the wrong turn, and as he stopped to reverse, Gavrilo Princip a member of the Black Hand gang was right in front of them. He took his opportunity, and killed both Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. -
World War One starts
As Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914, World War One started. The assassination was a trigger for the European powers to honour their alliances and look after their own interests. So one by one they mobilised and prepared for war. The countries Germany and Austria-Hungary were on one side, Russia, France and Great Britain were on the other. The other countries joined later. -
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his Wife Sophie
The Black Hand gang were a Serbian nationalist group. When the Black Hand gang realised that Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were going to visit Sarajevo in the 28th of June 1914, so they decided to plan an assassination on them. Each person in the group were placed along the route where Franz Ferdinand’s car would pass through. -
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife sophie PART2
As the car was driving on their way to the City hall and where the assassinations were placed along the route, one of the assassins threw a bomb at their direction, it had a timer and exploded before it could hit Franz Ferdinand and his wife. -
WWI Gallipoli
At dawn on the 25th of April 1915, the ANZACs landed north of Gaba Tepe,(the landing area later named Anzac Cove). While the British forces landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula.
What they were planning to do was to capture the Turkish forts commanding the narrow straits. Later reinforcements included the dismounted Australian and New Zealand Mounted Brigades at Anzac Cove. -
WWI Gallpoli
In August a new British corps landed at Suvla Bay, north of Anzac Cove, in the support of an attempt to break out of the Anzac beachhead.
The campaign was very heroic but was a failure and by December plans were drawn out to evacuate the entire force from Gallipoli. -
Battle of Fromelles
In 19th July 1916 to 20th of July 1916, Fromelles was the first major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front. Directed against a strong German position known as the Sugar Loaf salient. The attack was intended to draw German troops away from the Somme offensive then being pursued further to the south. -
Battle Fromelles
When the troops of the 5th Australian and 61st British attacked at 6pm on 19th July 1916, they had suffered heavily from the Germans machine gunners. Small parts of German trenches were captured by the 8th and 14th Australian Brigades, but had to withdraw because of their fierce counter attack.
