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Watt Modifies The Steam Engine
The man who succeeded in giving to the world this new power was James Watt. Steam now propels ships over the Atlantic in less than a week. It speeds express trains across our continent in ninety hours, and it does a thousand other wonderful and useful things. -
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The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution period from the 18th to the 19th century saw major changes in manufacturing , in particular cotton and the invention of the steam engine which provided faster ways of transporting products throughout the word. This increased production, reduced costs and changed working conditions which started in the Britain, spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history in every aspect. -
The French Revolution
The guillotine has become the bloody symbol of the French Revolution, an ironic ending for a machine that was initially introduced to end the preceding centuries of inhumane torture of criminals. -
First Fleet Arrives In Australia
The First Fleet Brought Horror.When the First Fleet arrived there was over 500000 Aboriginals in Australia.When the Europeans arrived they made dramatic changes, like making them where the clothes they wnted them to, telling them we to and not where to go.The Aboriginals did not like that. -
Volta Invents Battery
Volt. The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force. The volt is named in honour of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical battery. -
Textile Workers Smash Factories
The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-replacing machinery from 1811 to 1817. The stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace the artisans with less-skilled, low-wage labourers, leaving them without work. -
The Titanic Sinks
The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the north Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City -
The Australian Gold Rush
The gold rushes caused a huge influx of people from overseas. Australia's total population more than tripled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871. -
Passenger Railway
On Sept. 27, 1825, railroad transportation was born when the first public passenger train, pulled by Stephenson’s Active (later renamed Locomotion), ran from Darlington to Stockton, carrying 450 persons at 15 miles (24 km) per hour. -
Cholera Hits London
An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea. -
Slavery Abolished Thoughtout Brittian
For well over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. -
The Boer War
The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881. It was the first clash between the British and the Transvaal Boers. -
Benz Inventes First Automobile
Karl Friedrich Benz (German: [bɛnts] ( listen); November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine, and together with Bertha Benz, pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. -
Federation Of Australia
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate states, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia formed one nation. -
The Wright Brothers Invent Flight
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur flies a glider in earlier tests Kitty Hawk, Oct. 10, 1902.Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. -
WWI Begins
The immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, and entangled international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. -
WWI Ends
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war. -
The Treaty Of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash was the U.S. Stock Market crash of October 29, 1929, which precipitated a world-wide collapse of share values and triggered the Great Depression – 10 years of economic slump with catastrophic levels of unemployment across all the industrialised countries apart from the Soviet Union. -
WWII Begins
Treaty of Versailles caused German resentment that Hitler capitalized on to gain support and that led to the beginning to World War II. The Treaty of Versailles had a crippling effect on the German economy. -
WWII Ends
The Allies - Britain, France, the U.S, the Soviet Union, China, Canada, Australia and others were the winners of World War 2. By 1945 Germany and Japan had suffered a devastating defeat.
