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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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1787 - 1853 (66 years)