Before Australian Colonization

By jon0017
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    Events leading up to colonization of Australia

  • First African Slaves

    First African Slaves

    The first African slaves brought to the American colony of Virgina.
  • The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment

  • Seed Drill

    Seed Drill

    An English man, Jethro Tull invented the seed drill.
  • First European Factory

    First European Factory

    Arguably the first highly mechanized was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, (England)
  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle

    John Kay's invention allowed the shuttle, containing the thread, to be shot backwards and forwards across a much wider bed.
  • Agricultural Revolution 1750-1850

    Agricultural Revolution 1750-1850

    In England due to increases in labor and land productivity that took place.
  • Industrial revolution

    Industrial revolution

    Because the industrial revoluttion was so widespread the dates are between 1760-1830. This was a period of time when advancements were made in many fields of work.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    Invented by James Hargreaves in Stanhill in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn.
  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine

    It was invented by three seperate people over the course of one hundred years. But the one who brought everything together was James Watt a Scottich engineer.
  • Cook's discovery of the Terra Nullius

    Cook's discovery of the Terra Nullius

  • Cook's Claiming of the East Coast

  • American Independence

    American Independence

  • Power Loom

    Power Loom

    Edmund Cartwright patented the first power loom and set up a factory in Doncaster, England to manufacture cloth.
  • First Fleet arrives in  Botany Bay

    First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay

  • Settlement of Sydney

    Settlement of Sydney

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. (American)
  • Interchangeable parts

    Interchangeable parts

    Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts for guns. The price was low because they were easy and fast to make. (America)
  • Slaves are Banned in USA

    Slaves are Banned in USA

    The importation of African slaves to the USA banned.
  • Luddites Revolution 1811-1817

    Luddites Revolution 1811-1817

    The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery.
  • Irish Potato famine

    Irish Potato famine

    The great famine in Ireland now approaches it's peak. One third of the population was now reliant upon potato crop.Over the course of the potato famine 1 million people died and another 1 million emigrated from Ireland.
  • Federation of Australia

    Federation of Australia

    Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister in Australia