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the enlightenment
cause of the event
discoveries mad by izaak newton made belief to the people that that the church was not the answer to everything effect
the king and queen did not hve total power tht they used to have angaints the civilians more information
The Enlightenment developed more scientific methods such as experiments
Universities became important places for discoveries in medicine and physics
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First fleet
Convicts arrived in Australia in 1788, on the First Fleet.
Many convicts were sentenced to deportation for minor crimes as life became very tough in Great Britain.
Convicts formed a large percentage of the Australian population for the first few decades of settlement.
Governor Lachlan Macquarie encouraged reformed convicts to participate in society.
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Voluntry Migration
All migrants that came from the UK in the first fleet where attracted to australia by things that are called push and pull factors. The push factors that would of been in the UK at that time would have been the lack of money and lack of food for families. -
Bounty Scheme
It was introduced by the goverment of NSW because of imbalance of gender four men to one lady the bounty scheme was designed to attract more married couples to australia and more younger women
under the scheem setellers paid the convicts mony for there skills -
Tasmania becomes a state
Tasmania
"Anthony van Diemen's Land" after his sponsor, It was officially renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman on 1 January 1856. A common colloquial name for the state is "Tassie". -
assaisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife sophie duchess of Honhenberg where visiting sarajevo to inspect the army as the motorcade passed through the streets, gaviro princip a member of the serbian gang called the black hand shot and killed the duke and his wife. as a resut of his death world war one began -
the gallipoli campaign
From the outbreak of war in 1914, thousands of Australian men volunteered to fight. The first major fighting for these men was in what would come to be known as the failed Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. this happened because the ship captain -
US join ww1
on the seventh of may 1915 the passenger liner lustiniana was sunk by a german u boat campaign off during an unresticted u boat campaign off the southern coast of ireland 128 people died us sent varios notes of concern the US also thought that was supporting and providin britian and its allies with money and arms. then when germany re introduced the u boat scheem US declared war on them -
working man
A working man’s pride
• By 1888 Melbourne had become the largest city in Australia.
• Melbourne was the 2nd largest city in the British Empire only falling second to London.
• Workers paid by piece rate could barely survive.
• That led to more crime and poverty
• Australia was considered a working man paradise
• Men went to the bushes to go and get jobs to support their families A world leader in rights and freedom
• The six Australian colonies were among one of the most advanced c -
Convicts
For some they didn’t have long left behind bars but they were all still forced to go on this 8 month voyage. By the end of the first fleet twenty three convicts had died, around sixty per cent had been prisoned earlier for stealing small items such as food to survive. The second fleet was a disaster compared to the first fleet with 258 convicts dying over the voyage, between 1788 and 1868 about 165 000 convicts were transported over to New South Wales. -
NSW becomes a state
Writing in his diaries on a return trip from Australia, Captain Cook referred to this land upon which would be founded a British colony, as New South Wales. It has been logically speculated that he may have believe the landscape there looked like the South of Wales in the United Kingdom.