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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1889 | - 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
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| 6 | 1890 | - 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1892 | - 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
- 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
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| 9 | 1893 | - 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
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| 10 | 1896 | - 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
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| 11 | 1898 | - 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
- 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 1905 | - 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
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| 16 | 1909 | - 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
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| 17 | 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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1885 - 1913 (28 years)