James HallAge: 681835–1903
- Name
- James Hall
- Given names
- James
- Surname
- Hall
| Birth | 1835 25 31 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland |
| Christening | 13 March 1835 Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland |
| Australian History | 1835 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 12 months) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Birth of a sister | 1837 (Age 2) Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland
younger sister -
Letitia Hall
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| Christening of a sister | 23 July 1837 (Age 2) Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland
younger sister -
Letitia Hall
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| Australian History | 1838 (Age 3) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | 1839 (Age 4) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | 1840 (Age 5) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Birth of a brother | 1841 (Age 6)
younger brother -
David Hall
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| Australian History | 1841 (Age 6) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1842 (Age 7) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Birth of a sister | 1843 (Age 8) Drumswords, Ireland
younger sister -
Eliza Hall
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| Australian History | 1843 (Age 8) 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). |
| Christening of a sister | 12 September 1843 (Age 8) Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland
younger sister -
Eliza Hall
|
| Australian History | 1845 (Age 10) 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 15) 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 16) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary Ann Hall - View family 5 February 1852 (Age 17) Clones, Monaghan, Ireland
brother-in-law -
Matthew Madill
elder sister -
Mary Ann Hall
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| Australian History | 1853 (Age 18) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Marriage of a brother | John Hall - View family 20 February 1854 (Age 19) St Andrews, Scotshouse, Currin Parish, Ireland
elder brother -
John Hall
sister-in-law -
Mary Corbett
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| Death of a brother | 8 December 1854 (Age 19) Headstone, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Hall
|
| Australian History | 1854 (Age 19) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 20) 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 21) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Marriage of a sister | Letitia Hall - View family 3 July 1857 (Age 22) Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland
brother-in-law -
Alexander Nelson
younger sister -
Letitia Hall
|
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 22) 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. |
| Australian History | 1858 (Age 23) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 24) 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 25) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1861 (Age 26) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
| Australian History | 1862 (Age 27) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Marriage of a brother | David Hall - View family 2 March 1863 (Age 28) Clones, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland
younger brother -
David Hall
sister-in-law -
Elizabeth Ann Scott
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| Australian History | 1863 (Age 28) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 32) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 33) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 34) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Death of a mother | 12 April 1870 (Age 35) Talbot Road, Clunes, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Ann Mills
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| Marriage of a sister | Letitia Hall - View family 8 April 1871 (Age 36) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
William Myott
younger sister -
Letitia Hall
|
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 37) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 38) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 40) 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 43) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a father | 17 February 1879 (Age 44) Undera, Victoria, Australia
father -
David Hall
|
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 44) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 45) 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 47) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 48) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Burial of a brother | 8 December 1886 (Age 51) Undera, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Hall
|
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 52) 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 54) 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 55) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 56) 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 57) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 58) 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 59) 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 60) 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 61) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 62) 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 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 11 September 1901 (Age 66) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Mary Ann Hall
|
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 66) 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 67) 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 68) 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 |
| Death | 21 February 1903 (Age 68) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
David Hall
Birth 1810 50 Killeevan, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland Death 17 February 1879 (Age 69) Undera, Victoria, Australia |
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-6 years mother |
Ann Mills
Birth 1804 Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland Death 12 April 1870 (Age 66) Talbot Road, Clunes, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1827 — Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland |
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| #1 elder brother |
John Hall
Birth 1827 17 23 Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland Death 8 December 1854 (Age 27) Headstone, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #2 elder sister |
Birth 28 February 1830 20 26 Killeaven, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland Death 11 September 1901 (Age 71) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #3 elder sister |
Elzabeth Hall
Birth 1833 23 29 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland Death yes |
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2 years #4 himself |
James Hall
Birth 1835 25 31 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland Death 21 February 1903 (Age 68) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #5 younger sister |
Letitia Hall
Birth 1837 27 33 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland Death 2 August 1927 (Age 90) Redfern, New South Wales, Australia |
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4 years #6 younger brother |
David Hall
Birth 1841 31 37 Death 14 September 1924 (Age 83) Culcairn, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Eliza Hall
Birth 1843 33 39 Drumswords, Ireland Death yes |