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Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm was born on the 30th May 1808 and died on the 25th of March 1877. Caroline was mostly known for her involvement with the female immigrant welfare in Australia. She was a saint. Her effect of the women convicts was that she helped 10,000 women get jobs, also helped them find a place to live. -
Franz Ferdinand Assasination
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosnian Muslim) coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with t -
Voltaire
Francois- Marie Arouet was born on the 21st of November 1694. Francois was more commonly known by the name “Voltaire.” Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher. He was famous for his attack on the Catholic Church and his encouragement of freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation of church and state. Voltaire believed in freedom of speech and equality was necessary to any society. He fought for humane treatment for prisoners since he was constantly thr -
The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the River Somme in France. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of humanity's bloodiest battles. A Franco-British commitment to an offensive on the Somme had been made dur -
The Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne also known as the Miracle of the Marne. Was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. The battle successfully ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and had reached the outskirts of Paris. The counterattack of six French field armies and one British army along the Marne River forced the German Imperial Army to abandon its -
Australian Football
In 1857 Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian football returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was a football captain of rugby school and a great cricketer. Originally, he promoted in the winder game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during the off season. The Victorian football league was recognized in 1896 and in the following year the league’s first games were playing among basis clubs such as Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, S -
Australia goes to war
The First World War had an overwhelming effect on Australia. There were less than 3 million men in 1914, yet almost 400,000 of them volunteered to fight in the war. Approximately 60,000 died and tens of thousands were wounded. In response to the grief, the 1920s was a whirlwind of new cars and cinemas, American jazz and movies and fervour for the British Empire. When the Great Depression came in 1929, social and economic separations broadened and many Australian financial institutions failed. -
new technologies and ideas
During this time there was the American Revolution and the French Revolution. The reason that the American revolution was because the people in America were unhappy with the government of England who were dominant over them and in which they had no representation in. What started the revolution was known to be taxes, the English put taxes on British colonists in American and also even on tea, when the tax on tea was introduced the American were very unhappy. -
The history of Australian schooling
The history of Australian schooling is the history of social control, from the beginning the reasoning for schooling was to control the population. They never intended to foster the development of single children. Schools in Australia were established very early. The first school was made in 1789 and by 1793, three were made and under the guidance of Rev Richard, Johnston. This was rare for the time, in England less than 5% of children attended school. -
the first known landing in Australia by Europeans
The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator Williem Janszoon in 1606. Other Dutch navigators travelled the western and southern coasts in the 17th century and
labelled the continent New Holland. Macassan trepanners visisted Australia’s northern coasts after 1720, perhaps earlier. Other Europeans explores followed until 1770, when Lietenant James Cook plotted the east coast of Australia. -
Britain arrives and brings its convicts
A small amount of European explorers sailed the coast of Australia, then known as New Holland, in the 17th century. It wasn’t until 1770 that Captain James Cook hired the east coast and claimed it for Britain. The new outpost was put to use as a penal colony and on 26 January 1788, the First Fleet of 11 ships carrying 1,500 people, half of them convicts arrived in Sydney Harbour. Until penal transportation ended in 1868. 160,000 men and women came to Australia as convicts. -
The treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the massive Versailles Palace near Paris. Between the Germany and the Allies, the three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. The Versailles Palace was considered the most appropriate venue simply because of its size, hundreds of people were involve
