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Day 1 - Battles of Lexington and Concord
After the French and Indian War, Britain needed money, so the British government put taxes on the American colonists. This created tension between the two societies. The British commander in Boston heard of supplies of weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord, so he ordered British troops to seize the arms cache. The battle that followed triggered the American Revolutionary War which ended with America gaining it's independence from Great Britain on 3 September 1783. -
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American Revolutionary War
After the French and Indian War, Britain needed money, so the British government put taxes on the American colonists. This created tension between the two societies. The British commander in Boston heard of supplies of weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord, so he ordered British troops to seize the arms cache. The battle that followed triggered the American Revolutionary War which ended with America gaining it's independence from Great Britain on 3 September 1783. -
Day 2 - Arrival of the First Fleet
After the American War of Independence ended in 1783, the United States refused to accept any further convicts, so the British issued for the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales. The First Fleet consisted of 11 ships that left Portsmouth, England in 1787 and arrived at Botany Bay, New South Wales on the 18 January 1788. It mostly contained convicts who were forced to be transported due to the issue of over-crowded of jails. This event marked the European settlement of Australia. -
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of huge social and political upset in France between 1789 until 1799. The French Revolution was caused by the nation's debt, the nobility's denial to pay taxes, egalitarian philosophies as well as high food costs. -
Day 3 - The Storming of the Bastille
On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry mob. The mob had come for the huge ammunition stores held within the prison walls. When the prison governor refused to comply, the mob charged and eventually took hold of the building after a violent battle. The governor was killed and his head was carried around the streets on a spike. The event became one of the most significant moments in the French Revolution that followed. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars between the French Empire and its alliances, led by Napoleon I, against other European powers. The Napoleonic Wars were caused by the French Revolution and the bankruptcy of France as a nation under the monarchy. The Napoleonic Wars ended when the Treaties of Paris were signed at Paris in 1814 and 1815. -
Day 4 - Battle of Waterloo
The Napoleonic Wars were caused by the French Revolution and the bankruptcy of France as a nation under the monarchy. The Battle of Waterloo occurred near Waterloo in present-day Belgium on the 18th of June 1815. The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, signalled the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), which took the lives of 5 million people. -
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Australian Gold Rush
The Australian Gold Rush started in 1851, when Edward Hargraves discovered a small piece of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst. The gold rush brought a range of different races of people with different skills and professions to Australia. The Australian Gold Rush is considered to have ended sometime in 1861. -
Day 5
On day 5 of the tour, you will be put among mining Chinese immigrants in Ballarat, Victoria where you'll have the opportunity to experience being part of the Australian Gold Rush. The Australian Gold Rush started in 1851, when Edward Hargraves discovered a small piece of gold in a waterhole near Bathurst. The gold rush brought a range of different races of people with different skills and professions to Australia. -
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Second Opium War
In the mid-1850s, the European powers and the USA wished to renegotiate their commercial treaties with China. This effort was led by the British. Unwilling to make further concessions to the West, the Chinese government denied the Britain's requests. This signalled the start of the Second Opium War. The war pitted the British and French Empires against the Qing dynasty of China and lasted from 1856 to 1860. -
Day 6 - The Battle of Canton
In the mid-1850s, the European powers and the USA wished to renegotiate their commercial treaties with China. This effort was led by the British. Unwilling to make further concessions to the West, the Chinese government denied the Britain's requests. This signalled the start of the Second Opium War. The Battle of Canton was fought by British and French forces against China on 28–31 December 1857, in the town of Canton, or Guangzhou. The battle ended with the British and French seizing Canton. -
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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States between the Union army and secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which today remains the bloodiest war in U.S. history. The American Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. The Confederates supported slavery while the Union were fighting to end it. -
Day 7 - The Battle of Gettysburg
After a win over the Army of the Potomac, a confident Robert E. Lee decided that his Confederate Army should invade the North, wishing to gain more significant victories and gather supplies for his army. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on 1–3 of July, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle ended Lee's attempt to invade Union territory, turning the tide of the Civil War in the Union's favour. -
Day 8 - First Telephone Call
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in March 10, 1876, the telephone is a very significant invention that expanded and made communication easier. Bell also made the first ever phone call on this day, ringing his assistant next door and saying his famous line “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.” Bell worked at a school for the deaf; he had a high understanding of sound and this helped him invent the telephone. -
Day 9 - First Aeroplane Flight
The first ever aeroplane flight happened on the 17 of December, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the propeller-driven biplane, which stayed in the air for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its flight. The brothers were inspired to invent the plane in 1896, when they saw some newspapers that were filled with accounts of flying machines. -
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World War I
World War I (WWI) was an international conflict between the Central Powers, which mostly consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, and the Allies—mainly consisting of France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the USA. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. 8.5 million people were killed in the war. WWI was caused mainly by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, though historians believe that a number of factors contributed to the creation of WWI. -
Day 10 - The Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle fought in the Skagerrak in the First World War between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Sea's Fleet on 31 May - 1 June 1916. Admiral Scheer, Commander of the German Fleet, decided on a risky decoy operation to lure British battleships out of port. The British, however, were able to decode the German radio messages and therefore avoid the waiting German submarines. On 31 May, the fleets collided and the Battle of Jutland begun.
