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| 1 | 1788 | - 26 Jun 1788: The British Crown Colony of New South Wales started with the establishment of a settlement and penal colony at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788.
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| 2 | 1794 | - 1794: The name Australia is used by George Shaw and appears to be the first documented use.
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| 3 | 1800 | - 1800: Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy
- 1800: Herschel discovers infra-red light
- 1800: Volta makes first electrical battery
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| 4 | 1801 | - 1 Jan 1801: Union Jack becomes the official British flag
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| 5 | 1804 | - 1804: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.
- 1804: World population reaches 1 billion.
- 1804: Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed \'Australia\'
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| 6 | 1808 | - 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
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| 7 | 1809 | - 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
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| 8 | 1813 | - 1813: Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
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| 9 | 1815 | - 18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blcher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last.
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| 10 | 1820 | - 1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
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| 11 | 1821 | - 1821: Faraday publishes \'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation\'
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| 12 | 1826 | - 1826: Edmund Lockyer arrives from NSW at Albany and establishes the first settlement in W.A. with troops and convicts.
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| 13 | 1828 | - 1828: Captain James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Swan River Colony 'Headlines of History' by Ian Edwards
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| 14 | 1829 | - 1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
- 12 Aug 1829: City of Perth proclaimed.
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| 15 | 1830 | - 6 Apr 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.
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| 16 | 1831 | - 1831: Faraday in the first in a series of Experimental Researches in Electricity discovered the means of producing electricity from magnetism i.e. electromagnetic induction the generation of an electric field by a changing magnetic field. This is the principle of the dynamo
- 1 Jun 1831: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
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| 17 | 1832 | - 1832: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
- 1832: Electric telegraph invented by Morse
- Sep 1832: Yagan was captured and sent to Carnac Island. He escaped 6 weeks later by taking the boat belonging to his captors. No attempt to recapture him was made, the six weeks being considered adequate penalty.
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| 18 | 1833 | - 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
- 11 Jul 1833: Yagan is shot dead.
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| 19 | 1836 | - 1836: First brewery established in Western Australia.
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| 20 | 1839 | - 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
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| 21 | 1840 | - 1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
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| 22 | 1841 | - 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
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| 23 | 1845 | - 1845—1852: The Irish Potato Famine or the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland.
- 17 Mar 1845: The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
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| 24 | 1846 | - 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
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| 25 | 1850 | - 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
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| 26 | 1851 | - 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
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| 27 | 1856 | - 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
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| 28 | 1859 | - 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
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| 29 | 1861 | - 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
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| 30 | 1862 | - 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 31 | 1864 | - 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
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| 32 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
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| 33 | 1866 | - 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
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| 34 | 1868 | - 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
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| 35 | 1870 | - 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
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| 36 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
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| 37 | 1877 | - 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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| 38 | 1878 | - 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 39 | 1880 | - 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
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| 40 | 1883 | - 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
- 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
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| 41 | 1884 | - 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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| 42 | 1885 | - 1885: Carl Benz builds the \'Motorwagen\', a single-cylinder motor car
- 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world\'s first motorcycle
- 6 Jun 1885: First Australian rules football match played.
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| 43 | 1886 | - 1886: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
- 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named Coca-Cola
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| 44 | 1887 | - 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
- 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
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| 45 | 1888 | - 1888: Celluloid photographic film introduced
- 1888: Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.
- 1888: Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
- 1888: First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
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| 46 | 1889 | - 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
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| 47 | 1890 | - 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
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| 48 | 1891 | - 1891: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name "the Commonwealth of Australia" and drafting a constitution.
- 24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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| 49 | 1892 | - 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
- 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
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| 50 | 1893 | - 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
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| 51 | 1896 | - 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
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1786 - DECEASED