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Date |
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| 1 | 1868 | - 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
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| 2 | 1870 | - 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
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| 3 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
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| 4 | 1877 | - 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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| 5 | 1878 | - 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 6 | 1880 | - 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1884 | - 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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1868 - 1884 (15 years)