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| 1 | 1813 | - 1813: Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1820 | - 1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
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| 4 | 1821 | - 1821: Faraday publishes \'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation\'
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1828 | - 1828: Captain James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Swan River Colony 'Headlines of History' by Ian Edwards
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| 7 | 1829 | - 1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
- 12 Aug 1829: City of Perth proclaimed.
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| 8 | 1830 | - 6 Apr 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1833 | - 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
- 11 Jul 1833: Yagan is shot dead.
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| 12 | 1836 | - 1836: First brewery established in Western Australia.
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| 13 | 1839 | - 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
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| 14 | 1840 | - 1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
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| 15 | 1841 | - 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 1846 | - 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
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| 18 | 1850 | - 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
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| 19 | 1851 | - 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
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| 20 | 1856 | - 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
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| 21 | 1859 | - 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
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| 22 | 1861 | - 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
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| 23 | 1862 | - 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 24 | 1864 | - 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
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| 25 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
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| 26 | 1866 | - 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
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| 27 | 1868 | - 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
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| 28 | 1870 | - 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
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| 29 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
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| 30 | 1877 | - 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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| 31 | 1878 | - 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
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| 32 | 1880 | - 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
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| 33 | 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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| 34 | 1884 | - 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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| 35 | 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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| 36 | 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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| 37 | 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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| 38 | 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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| 39 | 1889 | - 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
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| 40 | 1890 | - 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
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| 41 | 1891 | - 1891: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name "the Commonwealth of Australia" and drafting a constitution.
- 24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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| 42 | 1892 | - 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
- 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
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| 43 | 1893 | - 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
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| 44 | 1896 | - 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
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| 45 | 1898 | - 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
- 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
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| 46 | 1900 | - 1900: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent.
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| 47 | 1901 | - 1901: Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General.
- 1901: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time.
- Jan 1901: Queen Victoria's death.
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| 48 | 1904 | - 9 Nov 1904: In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
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| 49 | 1905 | - 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
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| 50 | 1909 | - 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
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| 51 | 1912 | - 15 Apr 1912: On the night of April 14, at 11:40 p.m., The Titanic struck an iceberg; just under three hours later, at 2:20 AM, on April 15, 1912 the ship sank.
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| 52 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
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| 53 | 1915 | - 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
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| 54 | 1923 | - 1923: Vegemite is first produced.
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| 55 | 1924 | - 4 Jun 1924: Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
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| 56 | 1927 | - 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
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| 57 | 1928 | - 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
- 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
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| 58 | 1929 | - 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
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| 59 | 1939 | - 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
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| 60 | 1945 | - 1945: First Computer Built
- 30 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
- 6 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
- 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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| 61 | 1948 | - 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
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| 62 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 63 | 1956 | - 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
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| 64 | 1959 | - 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
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| 65 | 1961 | - 1961: Berlin Wall Built
- 12 Apr 1961: The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union as a part of the Vostok programme of space exploration, with a cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
- 5 May 1961: The United States became the second nation to achieve manned spaceflight, with the suborbital flight of astronaut Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, carried out as part of Project Mercury.
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| 66 | 1962 | - 1962: Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
- 5 Aug 1962: Marilyn Monroe was found naked, dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
- Oct 1962: The Cuban missile crisis.
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| 67 | 1963 | - 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
- 22 Nov 1963: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST
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| 68 | 1964 | - 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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| 69 | 1966 | - 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
- 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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| 70 | 1967 | - 27 May 1967: Australian referendum relating to Indigenous Australians. The results of the referendum recognised Aboriginal people on the census and made "Aboriginal Affairs' the responsiblity of the Commonwealth.
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| 71 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Moon Landing - On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
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| 72 | 1970 | - 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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| 73 | 1972 | - 30 Jan 1972: Bloody Sunday - Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
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| 74 | 1975 | - 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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| 75 | 1977 | - 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley
(8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
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| 76 | 1979 | - 1979: WAY 79, was the official sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebration of the colonisation of Western Australia by Europeans.
- 12 Jul 1979: Skylab crashes to earth around esperance area.
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| 77 | 1980 | - 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
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| 78 | 1981 | - 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
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| 79 | 1983 | - 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
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1873 - DECEASED