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Date |
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| 1 | 1892 | - 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
- 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
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| 2 | 1893 | - 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
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| 3 | 1896 | - 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
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| 4 | 1898 | - 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
- 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1905 | - 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
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| 9 | 1909 | - 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
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| 12 | 1915 | - 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
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1892 - 1917 (25 years)