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Steam Engines First Invented
One of the inventions that was invented during the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine. The first steam engine was made in 1698, then in 1712 Thomas Newcomen made a better model of it. The model was much better than the first bu, it had many faults including wasted fuel. James Watt attempted to build an even btter model in 1785, by using heat more efficiently with less fuel. Both coal and iron were crucial during the Industrial Revolution. -
First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay
The First Fleet of 11 ships, each one no larger than a Manly ferry, left Portsmouth in 1787 with more than 1480 men, women and children onboard. Although most were British, there were also African, American and French convicts. After a voyage of three months the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788. Here the Aboriginal people, who had lived in isolation for 40,000 years, met the British in an uneasy stand off at what is now known as Frenchmans Beach at La Perouse. -
French Revolution
At the bottom of the hierarchy were the peasants who paid the taxes and worked incredibly hard, the high class had a life of relaxation and wealth. One day the lower class rebelled against the higher classes, and surprisingly won. This then showed to all of Europe that the lower class can take down the higher class -
Indian Rebellion
In 1857 a big group of the Indian army rebelled against the British army. This then made the british armies very enraged. This Impacted the british colony altot, Religon was a big cause of this event. -
maritime strike
The 1890 Australian Maritime despute, was the first of four strikes that effect the country in the 1890s, this caused the collapse of governments in Victoria and in New South Wales. Although the strike ended in defeating the Australian labour movement, it was showed as a of the growing social power of the trade unions and labour councils, and was an important cause in the introduction of the arbitration system for industrial disputes and the for -
Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.
