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Date |
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| 1 | 1704 | - 1704: Johann Sebastian Bach began composing music
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| 2 | 1712 | - 1712: The Zuytdorp wrecked near Geraldton. Survivors are known to have landed, and the story of their welcome and preservation by local Aborigines was known as far south as Perth 122 years later.
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| 3 | 1775 | - 18 Apr 1775: American Revolutionary War
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| 4 | 1776 | - 4 Jul 1776: United States Declaration of Independence
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1794 | - 1794: The name Australia is used by George Shaw and appears to be the first documented use.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1801 | - 1 Jan 1801: Union Jack becomes the official British flag
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1808 | - 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
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| 11 | 1809 | - 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
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1702 - DECEASED