Timeline:1750-1918

1750-1918

Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1918

Industrial revolution starts

Feb 1, 1760

The spinning jenny is invented by james Hargreaves

Jan 1, 1764

204 ships leave England to carry slaves from africa to the Americas

Jan 1, 1771

First fleet arrives in australia

Jan 1, 1778

James Watt invents the first reliable steam engine

Jan 12, 1781

James Watt invents the first reliable steam engine

Feb 17, 1781

James Watt. James Watt was born in 1736 and died in 1819. James Watt's great claim to fame is that he greatly improved on the steam engine thus paving the way for their use in factories, mills and mines.

Pemuwuy is killed

Jun 2, 1802

slave trade is abolished in UK

Mar 25, 1807

Melbourne founded

Jan 1, 1835

Myall creek massacre

Feb 17, 1838

The Myall Creek massacre near Gwydir River, in the central New South Wales involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Indigenous Australians by ten white Europeans and one black African.

Buckland river riot

Jul 4, 1857

Immigration Restriction Act passed

Feb 17, 1901

women in Australia have the right in australia to vot in the common wealth ellections

Feb 17, 1902

The harvester judgement

Jan 1, 1907

Austraians vote against the conscription

Feb 10, 1914

Franz Ferdinand is assassinated

Jun 28, 1914

Franz Ferdinand was a Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death when he was assassinated

World War 1 begins

Jul 28, 1914

World War I was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.

anzac troops land at gallipoli

Apr 25, 1915

The US declares war against germany

Apr 2, 1917

World war 1

Feb 17, 1918

World War One ended at 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. Germany signed an an agreement for peace and no more fighting that had been prepared by Britain and France. At the start of 1918