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Rosie BENNELL

Female 1875 - 1945  (70 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
1884 
  • 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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.
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
1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
10 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
11 1889 
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
12 1890 
  • 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
13 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
14 1892 
  • 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
15 1893 
  • 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
16 1896 
  • 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
17 1898 
  • 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
  • 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
18 1900 
  • 1900: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent.
19 1901 
  • 1901: Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General.
  • 1901: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time.
  • Jan 1901: Queen Victoria's death.
20 1904 
  • 9 Nov 1904: In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
21 1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
22 1909 
  • 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
23 1912 
  • 15 Apr 1912: On the night of April 14, at 11:40 p.m., The Titanic struck an iceberg; just under three hours later, at 2:20 AM, on April 15, 1912 the ship sank.
24 1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
25 1915 
  • 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
26 1923 
  • 1923: Vegemite is first produced.
27 1924 
  • 4 Jun 1924: Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
28 1927 
  • 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
29 1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
  • 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
30 1929 
  • 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
31 1939 
  • 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
32 1945 
  • 1945: First Computer Built
  • 30 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
  • 6 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.