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The Idustrial Revolution
The Idustrial Revolution was a time of change for machines and many inventions happaned over this time including the modern automobile. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is electricity. Benjamin Franklin's kite is one of the most popular and memorable stories in science. -
George III becomes King of Great Britain.
George III becomes King of Great Britain. He ruled from 1760 until 1820. -
The Boston Tea Party
Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. As a way of recovering the money the government taxed the people. The people were upset with this and so the people threw tea into the river -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political uproar during the last half of the 18th century, in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
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The American Revolution
The American Revolution was when the United States Of American settled independence from Britain. -
James Watts designs a more efficent steam engine
James Watts designs a more efficent steam engine which was used for more efficent transport and better commercial use. James Watts design was much more efficent then the previous designs as he didn't cool and re heat the cylinder. -
The American Declaration of Independence
The American Declaration of Independence announces the American colonies independence from Great Britain. -
The First Fleet
The First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay, beginning British settlement in Australia. -
The Storm of Bastille prison
Citizens of Paris, headed by the National Guards, storm the Bastille prison on 14 July 1789. This event has come to represent the start of the French Revolution. The storm of bastille prison was a significent event in showing the power. -
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The French Revolution
Outbreak of the French Revolution as a consequence of high bread prices and dissatisfaction with the ruling arstocrats who levied high taxes to support extravagant lifestyles. The French Revolution started with the storm of Bastille prison in 14 July 1789. -
Alessandro Volta invents a battery
Alessandro Volta invents a battery to store eletrical current; the unit of eletric potential, volt, is named after him. -
The first railroad designed for passengers and freight
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad was the first railroad designed for passengers & freight. There wereb alot of skeptics who dobted the steam engine and thought it wouldn't make it up the steep slopes. Investors hoped the railroad would allow Baltimore, the second largest U.S. city at the time, to successfully compete with New York for western trade. -
People's Charter of 1838
The Chartist movement came after the collapse of Owen's national trade union. Many working people sought political democracy through this group. Political democracy and rule by the common people would lead to a good and just society. Parliament rejected all three of their petitions. -
Gold Rush In Australia
Edward Hargraves claims of discovering the first piece of gold in Australia near Bathurst, New South Wales, triggering several gold rushes around Asutralia. -
American Civil War
Fought over the right to succeed from the Union and over the right of slavery. Won by the North over the South, rejoining the two into a slavery-free country. While slavery was banned, problems still lingered into the 1900's of racism, culminating in the Civil Rights Movement and the first free, equal, and democratic nation. -
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for enslaved persons living in states under the control of the Confederacy. -
The Invention of the telephone
The first telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and enabled people to talk of large distances. -
Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.[ -
Federation Of Australia
Federation Of Australia - the six colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation -
The wright brothers achieve the first coontrolled flight
Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first controlled, powerd, man-carrying flight. -
The Titanic sinks
The worlds then largest passenger steamship, the Titanic, hits an iceberg in the north-west Atlantic Ocean and sinks, 1517 people die. -
World War I ends
World War I was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918 with the defeat of germany.
