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Eliza Jagger1804–?

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Eliza Jagger
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Eliza
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Jagger
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Birth 7 May 1804 29 29
 Lancashire, England

Australian History 1804
 

Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen.
Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill
Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins.
Australian History 1808 (Age 3)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Birth of a sister 8 January 1809 (Age 4)
 Liverpool, Lancashire, England

younger sister - Isabella Jagger
Birth of a brother 30 October 1810 (Age 6)
 Liverpool, Lancashire, England

younger brother - John Hamilton Jagger
Marriage of a brotherJabez Jagger - View family
4 June 1816 (Age 12)
 Liverpool, Lancashire, England

elder brother - Jabez Jagger
sister-in-law - Ann Emerson
Australian History 1817 (Age 12)
 

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'
Marriage of a sisterElizabeth Jagger - View family
13 December 1818 (Age 14)
 Liverpool, Lancashire, England

brother-in-law - Robert Thorton
elder sister - Elizabeth Jagger
Australian History 1818 (Age 13)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 19)
 

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
MarriageCharles Whitley - View family
2 November 1825 (Age 21)
 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Australian History 1825 (Age 20)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 23)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 26)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 27)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 28)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 33)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 34)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 35)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 36)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 37)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 38)
 

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 40)
 

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 45)
 

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 46)
 

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 48)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 49)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 50)
 

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 51)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 52)
 

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 53)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 54)
 

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 55)
 

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 56)
 

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 57)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 58)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 62)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 63)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 64)
 

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 67)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 68)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 70)
 

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 73)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 74)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 75)
 

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 77)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 78)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 82)
 

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 84)
 

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 85)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 86)
 

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 87)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 88)
 

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 89)
 

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 90)
 

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 91)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 92)
 

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 93)
 

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 94)
 

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 95)
 

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 96)
 

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 97)
 

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 98)
 

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 99)
 

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 101)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 103)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Deathyes
 

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father
Eli Jagger

Birth June 1774  Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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mother
Ann Hamilton

Birth 1 June 1774 24 24  

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Marriage: 11 October 1795 — Liverpool, Saint Nicholas, Lancashire, England
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#1 elder brother
Jabez Jagger

Birth 1795 20 20  Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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6 years
#2 elder sister
Elizabeth Jagger

Birth 25 October 1800 26 26  Lancashire, England

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4 years
#3 herself
Eliza Jagger

Birth 7 May 1804 29 29  Lancashire, England

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5 years
#4 younger sister
Isabella Jagger

Birth 8 January 1809 34 34  Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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22 months
#5 younger brother
John Hamilton Jagger

Birth 30 October 1810 36 36  Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Family with Charles Whitley - View family
husband
Charles Whitley

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herself
Eliza Jagger

Birth 7 May 1804 29 29  Lancashire, England

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Marriage: 2 November 1825 — Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

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