Richard S GreggAge: 671859–1926
- Name
- Richard S Gregg
- Given names
- Richard S
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | 31 July 1859 30 18 Wells County, IN |
| Australian History | 1859 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 5 months) 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 sister | 7 January 1861 (Age 17 months) Liberty Twnship, Wells Co. IN
younger sister -
Sarah Jane Gregg
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| Australian History | 1861 (Age 17 months) 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 brother | 8 March 1862 (Age 2) Liberty Township, Wells Co., Indiana, USA
younger brother -
Robert James W. Gregg
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| Australian History | 1862 (Age 2) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 29 May 1863 (Age 3) Rock Creek, Wells, Indiana, United States
maternal grandmother -
Susanna Jackson
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| Australian History | 1863 (Age 3) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Birth of a brother | 1 September 1865 (Age 6) Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN
younger brother -
Joseph Daniel Gregg
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 7) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a sister | 16 February 1868 (Age 8) Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN
younger sister -
Mary Ellen Gregg
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 8) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 9) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | 5 February 1872 (Age 12) Liberty Twp, Wells Co., IN
younger sister -
Fanny Eliza Gregg
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 12) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 13) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a brother | 1 April 1874 (Age 14) Wells Co. Indiana
younger brother -
Thomas D Gregg
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 15) 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 brother | 3 October 1878 (Age 19) Wells Co. Indiana
younger brother -
John William Gregg
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 18) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 19) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 20) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 5 February 1881 (Age 21) Wells County, Indiana
maternal grandfather -
Samual Wallace
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| Death of a paternal grandmother | September 1881 (Age 22) County Donegal, Ireland
paternal grandmother -
Fanny McClure
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 22) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 23) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 27) 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 29) 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 30) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 31) 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 |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 32) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 33) 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 34) 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. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 35) 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 36) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 |
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 46) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a sister | 9 February 1908 (Age 48) Wells Co. Indiana
younger sister -
Sarah Jane Gregg
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| Death of a sister | 9 February 1908 (Age 48) Wells Co. Indiana
younger sister -
Fanny Eliza Gregg
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| Death of a father | 9 February 1908 (Age 48) Liberty Township, Wells, Indiana, USA
father -
John Gregg
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 48) 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 49) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 50) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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 53) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 54) 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 55) 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 56) 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 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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 60) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 61) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 62) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 63) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 66) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Death | 26 December 1926 (Age 67) Wells County, IN |
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| father |
John Gregg
Birth 9 May 1829 49 35 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland Death 9 February 1908 (Age 78) Liberty Township, Wells, Indiana, USA Loading...
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12 years mother |
Fanny Wallace
Birth 28 March 1841 35 17 Indiana, USA Death 28 April 1927 (Age 86) Wells County, Indiana Loading...
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Marriage: October 1858 — Well County, Indiana, USA |
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10 months #1 himself |
Richard S Gregg
Birth 31 July 1859 30 18 Wells County, IN Death 26 December 1926 (Age 67) Wells County, IN Loading...
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17 months #2 younger sister |
Sarah Jane Gregg
Birth 7 January 1861 31 19 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co. IN Death 9 February 1908 (Age 47) Wells Co. Indiana Loading...
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14 months #3 younger brother |
Robert James W. Gregg
Birth 8 March 1862 32 20 Liberty Township, Wells Co., Indiana, USA Death 6 April 1931 (Age 69) Indiana, USA Loading...
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4 years #4 younger brother |
Joseph Daniel Gregg
Birth 1 September 1865 36 24 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN Death 13 September 1960 (Age 95) Liberty, Wells, Indiana, USA Loading...
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3 years #5 younger sister |
Mary Ellen Gregg
Birth 16 February 1868 38 26 Liberty Twnship, Wells Co., IN Death 26 June 1942 (Age 74) Poplar Bluff, Missouri Loading...
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4 years #6 younger sister |
Fanny Eliza Gregg
Birth 5 February 1872 42 30 Liberty Twp, Wells Co., IN Death 9 February 1908 (Age 36) Wells Co. Indiana Loading...
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2 years #7 younger brother |
Thomas D Gregg
Birth 1 April 1874 44 33 Wells Co. Indiana Death 13 August 1951 (Age 77) Wells Co. Indiana Loading...
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5 years #8 younger brother |
John William Gregg
Birth 3 October 1878 49 37 Wells Co. Indiana Death 1949 (Age 70) Wells Co. Indiana Loading...
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