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Start of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in the world of manufacturing. Instead of creating products by hand, this revolution opened the world to massive factories, built to manufacture chains of products and machines. This time also saw the introduction of metal and steel in buildings and artifacts, making them more durable. This time also saw the invention of the steam locomotive. -
British Colonization of Australia
Lead by Captain Arthur Phillip, the First Fleet of ships arrived in Botany Bay (near modern day Sydney), on the east coast of what would be called Australia. The fleet contained hundreds of convicts and colonizers ready to make this 'new world' their home. However, Indigenous Australians had been living their for 50,000 years before, so they weren't alone. This was the start of white colonization down under. -
French Revolution
During a period of political change around the world, the French were one of the first to start this trend. The French Revolution was the period of time when the citizens of France redesigned the many century old political landscape. This was significant in the fact that this the end of the Feudal System and absolute Monarchies. The people were finally getting their opinion across, not without bloodshed though. King Louis XVI and his mistress were killed by guillotine as apart of the revolution. -
Inauguration of Napoleon
On the day of August the second, the first French Emperor in a thousand years is crowned in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
After rising in the French army ranks, the best military strategist in the world: Napoleon had made a mark for himself as the rest of Europe were at war with the French. He was an incredible strategist, but he ruled through force over diplomacy. His eventual exile wouldn't come without France becoming one of the most powerful of nations. -
Eruption of Mt. Tambora
One of the most destructive volcanic eruptions of the past 10,000 years, came from one of the islands in Indonesia.
The stratovolcano known as Mt. Tambora released nearly 20 cubic kilometres of ash into the atmosphere, along with a huge explosion. This changed the world as global temperatures dropped several degrees due to the dust blocking the Sun's warmth. Thousands died in the following year, which was known as the year without a summer. If this happened again, chaos would engulf the world. -
Invention of the Periodic Table
1869 saw the invention of a table, but not your dining kind. This one holds all known elements, including your gold, iron, hydrogen, boron etc.
The table was thought up by a Russian Chemist known as Dmitri Mendeleev. He and chemists before found out that elements could be arranged according to their atomic numbers. At Dmitri's time however, not all the element were discovered, but the table was able to predict new elements. This changed the world by opening the world to chemistry. -
Invention of the Light Bulb
What is an essential part of life today, was predominantly invented way back in 1879 by Thomas Edison in the USA: the Light Bulb. Now he wasn't the only one to have been experimenting with electric lights, but the American created to first commercially viable light bulb. he experimented with different metals and materials to see which would work best and after 1,000 attempts, he found it. This invention is crucial these days as light is one of the most crucial things we need to live and work. -
Revival of the Olympics
After an absence of 1,500 years, the biggest sporting competition on Earth, the Olympics, was revived in 1896. The first city to host the new games was in Athens, in Greece. The spiritual home nation of the games hosted 60,000 spectators and athletes from 13 nations. They competed in 43 events including track and field, swimming etc.
This event would start a trend every four years having hundreds of countries competing against each other, in many different host cities that still happens today. -
Invention of the first 'Heavier than Air' Aircraft
After years of flying in blimps that were as slow as clouds and as combustible as a petrol station, two brothers: Wilbur and Orville Wright started work at a new way to fly. They set to work on creating wings, propellers, frames etc. By mid December in 1903, the two had created a working aircraft that they would test it in the town of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. It worked!
Their invention would set forward one of the best and safest ways to travel long distances in the future. -
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
Icy waters pose threats to all ships, even those deemed unsinkable. This unfortunately happened on the eve of April 14th in 1912. 2,000 people boarded the new ship: Titanic, and 500 left it. So the journey began. But that time came when ice was spotted right ahead and the ship couldn't avoid it. A hit on the starboard bow filled the ship with water and due to the lack of life boats, 1,500 went down with the ship. This changed maritime as ships would have to be given more safety equipment. -
Commencement of World War 1
Possibly the most famous war was started with one shot of a gun. After Austrian; Franz Ferdinand was shot dead by a Serbian nationalist, the world spiraled into chaos as countries chose sides in the escalating war. Almost every country was involved in some way. One of the most famous conflicts was the Britain-Germany battle. This was the first war involving the majority of the world, and i was one of the most devastating. -
End of World War 1
After four brutal years of almost nonstop war, the world was a changed place. 9 million soldiers had been killed with 21 million more injured. A further 10 million civilians had been killed during the time, with the most affected countries being Germany and France. But with dwindling resources, both sides were struggling, especially Germany. So on the 11th of November, 1918, a treaty was signed to stop the fighting. The Treaty of Versailles was signed, and the war to end all wars was ended.