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The seed drill is invented by Jethro Tull. This is a critical point of the agrarian revolution which frees labour from the fields and lowers crop prices.
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The first workable steam-powered engine is developed by Thomas Newcomen.
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It all began in Great Britain where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times.. then It spread though out the world and built the foundations of the way of life we still live today.
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Australia started as a place to store convicts.
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Techniques of mass production of interchangeable parts are developed by the arms industry in the USA, led by Eli Whitney.
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Textile workers known as Luddites stage widespread protests against low pay and unemployment in Nottinghamshire, which involve destroying new machines.
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Sir hernery parkes federated australia in 1901 to make it a country.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which set off the beginning of World War I.
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United States declared war on Germany.
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The Allies began their final offensive on the Western Front.
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Germany signed an armistice ending World War I.