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Date |
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| 1 | 1870 | - 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
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| 2 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
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| 3 | 1877 | - 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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| 4 | 1878 | - 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 5 | 1880 | - 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1884 | - 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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| 8 | 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.
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| 9 | 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
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| 10 | 1887 | - 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
- 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
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| 11 | 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
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1869 - 1888 (19 years)