Walter James HamAge: 761863–1940
- Name
- Walter James Ham
- Given names
- Walter James
- Surname
- Ham
| Birth | 5 July 1863 Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1863 Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 3) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 4) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 5) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 8) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 9) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 11) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 14) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 15) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 16) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 18) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 19) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 23) Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 25) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 26) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 27) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
| Marriage | Annie Anderson - View family 31 August 1892 (Age 29) Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 28) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 21 June 1893 (Age 29) Kew, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Vera Grace Ham
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| Australian History | 1893 (Age 29) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 30) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1895 (Age 31) Kew, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Lily Charlotte Ham
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| Death of a daughter | 27 October 1895 (Age 32) Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Vera Grace Ham
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 31) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 32) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Birth of a son #3 | 28 April 1897 (Age 33) Kew, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Stewart Ham
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 33) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 34) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 35) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 36) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: 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 |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 37) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Birth of a son #4 | 19 October 1902 (Age 39) Kew, Victoria, Australia
son -
Harold John Ham
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 38) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 39) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 40) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 42) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 44) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 45) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 46) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 47) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 48) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 49) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 49) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 50) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 51) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 52) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 53) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 54) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 55) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 56) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 57) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 58) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Death of a wife | 5 April 1923 (Age 59) Mount Park, Victoria, Australia
wife -
Annie Anderson
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| Australian History | 1923 (Age 59) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 62) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 63) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 64) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 65) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 66) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 67) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 68) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 69) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 72) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 73) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 74) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 75) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 76) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Death | 8 January 1940 (Age 76) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Annie Anderson - View family |
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Walter James Ham
Birth 5 July 1863 Geelong, Victoria, Australia Death 8 January 1940 (Age 76) Kew, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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18 months wife |
Annie Anderson
Birth 1865 31 23 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 April 1923 (Age 58) Mount Park, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 31 August 1892 — Victoria, Australia |
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10 months #1 daughter |
Vera Grace Ham
Birth 21 June 1893 29 28 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 27 October 1895 (Age 2) Victoria, Australia Loading...
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18 months #2 daughter |
Lily Charlotte Ham
Birth 1895 31 30 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 6 January 1982 (Age 87) Hamilton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #3 son |
Walter Stewart Ham
Birth 28 April 1897 33 32 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 20 April 1946 (Age 48) Fairfield, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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6 years #4 son |
Harold John Ham
Birth 19 October 1902 39 37 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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