Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
Neanderthal man first identified.
Victorian gold rush.
Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
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.
The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
First brewery established in Western Australia.
Yagan is shot dead.
Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
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.
Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Electric telegraph invented by Morse
James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
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
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.
City of Perth proclaimed.
Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
Captain James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Swan River Colony 'Headlines of History' by Ian Edwards
Edmund Lockyer arrives from NSW at Albany and establishes the first settlement in W.A. with troops and convicts.
Faraday publishes \'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation\'
Discovery of Antarctica.
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.
Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
Birth of Charles Darwin
Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.
World population reaches 1 billion.
Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed \'Australia\'
Union Jack becomes the official British flag
Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy
Herschel discovers infra-red light
Volta makes first electrical battery
The name Australia is used by George Shaw and appears to be the first documented use.