Timeline: Sarah MILLS: Mills/Rushton Family History

1839 - 1840 (1 year)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1839	1839: First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) – Britain captures Hong Kong 1839: Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle, adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sense 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
2	1840	1840: Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain 1840: Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere) 10 Jan 1840: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally