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| 1 | 1564 | - 15 Feb 1564: Galileo Galilei born, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
- 26 Apr 1564: William Shakespeare baptized.
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| 2 | 1591 | - 1591: First flush toilet is introduced by Sir John Harrington of England, the design published under the title 'The Metamorphosis of Ajax'.
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| 3 | 1605 | - 1605: Pedro de Quiros coins the name Austrialia and reported on 'Terra Australis'.
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| 4 | 1606 | - 1606: First documented landing by Europeans in Australia - Dutch, William Janszoon. (Duyfken)
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| 5 | 1609 | - 1609: Galileo built a telescope with which he discovered the mountains on the moon, that the Milky Way consisted of innumerable stars, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and sunspots.
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| 6 | 1616 | - 1616: Dirk Hartog makes the first confirmed landing on West Australian soil. (Eendracht)
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| 7 | 1642 | - 1642: Abel Tasman discovers VanDiemen's Land (Tasmania)
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| 8 | 1665 | - 1665: The Great Plague of London was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England killing an estimated 100,000 people, about 20% of London's population.
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| 9 | 1666 | - 2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London.
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| 10 | 1688 | - 1688: William Dampier becomes the first Englishman to land on West Australian soil. (Cygnet)
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| 11 | 1696 | - 1696: Willem de Vlamingh lands on Rottnest and explores and names the Swan River.
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| 12 | 1699 | - 1699: Return of Dampier in the Roebuck, exploring from Broome to the Pilbara. During this time the Portuguese in Timor raid the Kimberley for Aboriginal slaves.
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| 13 | 1704 | - 1704: Johann Sebastian Bach began composing music
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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 1775 | - 18 Apr 1775: American Revolutionary War
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| 16 | 1776 | - 4 Jul 1776: United States Declaration of Independence
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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 1794 | - 1794: The name Australia is used by George Shaw and appears to be the first documented use.
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 1801 | - 1 Jan 1801: Union Jack becomes the official British flag
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 1808 | - 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
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| 23 | 1809 | - 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
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| 24 | 1813 | - 1813: Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
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| 25 | 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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| 26 | 1820 | - 1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
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| 27 | 1821 | - 1821: Faraday publishes \'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation\'
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| 28 | 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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| 29 | 1828 | - 1828: Captain James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Swan River Colony 'Headlines of History' by Ian Edwards
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| 30 | 1829 | - 1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
- 12 Aug 1829: City of Perth proclaimed.
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1825 - Bef 1830 (< 4 years)