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Date |
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| 1 | 1775 | - 18 Apr 1775: American Revolutionary War
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| 2 | 1776 | - 4 Jul 1776: United States Declaration of Independence
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1794 | - 1794: The name Australia is used by George Shaw and appears to be the first documented use.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1801 | - 1 Jan 1801: Union Jack becomes the official British flag
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1808 | - 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
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| 9 | 1809 | - 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
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| 10 | 1813 | - 1813: Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
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| 11 | 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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1749 - 1817 (68 years)