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Samual WallaceAge: 751805–1881

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Samual Wallace
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Samual
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Wallace
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Birth 19 November 1805
 Ireland

Australian History 1808 (Age 2)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Australian History 1817 (Age 11)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 12)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 18)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 19)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 22)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 23)
 

Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain.
Australian History 1830 (Age 24)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 25)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 26)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 27)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 29)
 

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.
Australian History 1836 (Age 30)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 32)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 33)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
MarriageSusanna Jackson - View family
17 May 1840 (Age 34)
 Wells, Indiana, United States

Australian History 1840 (Age 34)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 28 March 1841 (Age 35)
 Indiana, USA

daughter - Fanny Wallace
Australian History 1841 (Age 35)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 36)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 37)
 

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).
Australian History 1845 (Age 39)
 

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.
Australian History 1850 (Age 44)
 

Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments
Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded.
Australian History 1851 (Age 45)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 47)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 48)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 49)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.
Note: All men over 21 years of age obtain the right to vote in South Australia.
Australian History 1856 (Age 50)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 51)
 

Note: Victorian Committee reported that a 'federal union' would be in the interests of all the growing colonies. However, there was not enough interest in or enthusiasm for taking positive steps towards bringing the colonies together.
Note: Victorian men achieve the right to vote.
Marriage of a daughterFanny Wallace - View family
October 1858 (Age 52)
 Well County, Indiana, USA

son-in-law - John Gregg
daughter - Fanny Wallace
Australian History 1858 (Age 52)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 31 July 1859 (Age 53)
 Wells County, IN

grandson - Richard S Gregg
Australian History 1859 (Age 53)
 

Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded
Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E.
Australian History 1860 (Age 54)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 7 January 1861 (Age 55)
 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co. IN

granddaughter - Sarah Jane Gregg
Australian History 1861 (Age 55)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Birth of a grandson
#3		 8 March 1862 (Age 56)
 Liberty Township, Wells Co., Indiana, USA

grandson - Robert James W. Gregg
Australian History 1862 (Age 56)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Death of a wife 29 May 1863 (Age 57)
 Rock Creek, Wells, Indiana, United States

wife - Susanna Jackson
Australian History 1863 (Age 57)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1 September 1865 (Age 59)
 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN

grandson - Joseph Daniel Gregg
Australian History 1867 (Age 61)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 16 February 1868 (Age 62)
 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN

granddaughter - Mary Ellen Gregg
Australian History 1868 (Age 62)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 63)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 5 February 1872 (Age 66)
 Liberty Twp, Wells Co., IN

granddaughter - Fanny Eliza Gregg
Australian History 1872 (Age 66)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 67)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a grandson
#7		 1 April 1874 (Age 68)
 Wells Co. Indiana

grandson - Thomas D Gregg
Australian History 1875 (Age 69)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Birth of a grandson
#8		 3 October 1878 (Age 72)
 Wells Co. Indiana

grandson - John William Gregg
Australian History 1878 (Age 72)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 73)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 74)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Death 5 February 1881 (Age 75)
 Wells County, Indiana

Family with Susanna Jackson - View family
himself
Samual Wallace

Birth 19 November 1805  Ireland

Death 5 February 1881 (Age 75)  Wells County, Indiana

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18 years
wife
Susanna Jackson

Birth 29 July 1823  Wells, Indiana, United States

Death 29 May 1863 (Age 39)  Rock Creek, Wells, Indiana, United States

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Marriage: 17 May 1840 — Wells, Indiana, United States
10 months
#1 daughter
Fanny Wallace

Birth 28 March 1841 35 17  Indiana, USA

Death 28 April 1927 (Age 86)  Wells County, Indiana

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