Timeline of Modern History

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    Timeline of Modern History

  • James Watt invents the steam engine and kick-starts the Industrial Revolution

  • American War of Independence

  • End of American War of Independence

  • First Fleet Arrives to Colonise Sydney

  • French Revolution

    The French Revolution lasted from 1789-92

  • Napoleonic Wars

    Lasted from 1794-1815

  • Britain abolishes slavery in the British Empire

  • European Revolutions

  • Karl Marx writes the ‘Communist Manifesto’

  • Australian Unionism & Strikes

  • Australian Federation

  • World War One

    Lasted from 1914-1918

  • Russian Revolution

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