Robert O. Gregg?–1941
- Name
- Robert O. Gregg
- Given names
- Robert O.
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | USA |
| Marriage | View family |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | USA
daughter -
Mable Gregg
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| Australian History | 1867 Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Birth of a sister | 3 February 1869 Venango, Pennsylvania, USA
sister -
Etta Hannah Gregg
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| Australian History | 1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Australian History | 1872 Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Birth of a brother | August 1873 Denison, Crawford, Iowa, USA
brother -
Samuel Wesley Gregg
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| Australian History | 1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a brother | 1874
brother -
Charlie J. Gregg
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| Australian History | 1875 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 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 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 Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 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 Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Death of a father | 3 May 1891 Leadville, Lake, Colorado, USA
father -
Robert Gregg
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| Australian History | 1891 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 Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 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 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Samuel Wesley Gregg - View family 11 November 1895 Leadville, Colorado, USA
brother -
Samuel Wesley Gregg
sister-in-law -
Margaret Elizabeth Correll
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| Marriage of a sister | Etta Hannah Gregg - View family 16 December 1895 Leadville, Colorado, USA
brother-in-law -
Jacob Rexford Stockton
sister -
Etta Hannah Gregg
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| Australian History | 1895 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 Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a sister | 18 February 1907 Oakland, California, USA
sister -
Etta Hannah Gregg
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| Death of a mother | 28 December 1908 Oakland, California, USA
mother -
Mary Jane Ralston
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| Australian History | 1908 Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 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 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 Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 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. |
| Death of a brother | May 1915 Denver, Colorado, USA
brother -
Samuel Wesley Gregg
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| Australian History | 1915 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 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 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 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 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 Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 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 Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 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 Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 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 Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 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 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. |
| Australian History | 1941 Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Death | 7 October 1941 Oakland, California, USA |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Robert Gregg
Birth 14 December 1830 40 31 Oakland Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 3 May 1891 (Age 60) Leadville, Lake, Colorado, USA Loading...
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3 years mother |
Mary Jane Ralston
Birth 14 April 1834 Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, USA Death 28 December 1908 (Age 74) Oakland, California, USA Loading...
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Marriage: 2 September 1852 — Wayne Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| #1 himself |
Robert O. Gregg
Birth USA Death 7 October 1941 Oakland, California, USA Loading...
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| #2 sister |
Lizzie Gregg
Birth USA Death yes Loading...
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| #3 brother |
James Gregg
Death yes Loading...
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| #4 brother |
John H. Gregg
Birth 1856 25 21 Oakland, California, USA Death yes Loading...
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3 years #5 sister |
Sarah Gregg
Birth 1859 28 24 Oakland, California, USA Death yes Loading...
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10 years #6 sister |
Etta Hannah Gregg
Birth 3 February 1869 38 34 Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 18 February 1907 (Age 38) Oakland, California, USA Loading...
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5 years #7 brother |
Samuel Wesley Gregg
Birth August 1873 42 39 Denison, Crawford, Iowa, USA Death May 1915 (Age 41) Denver, Colorado, USA Loading...
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5 months #8 brother |
Charlie J. Gregg
Birth 1874 43 39 Death yes Loading...
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| Family with unknown person - View family |
| himself |
Robert O. Gregg
Birth USA Death 7 October 1941 Oakland, California, USA Loading...
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 daughter |
Mable Gregg
Birth USA Death yes Loading...
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| #2 daughter |
Irene Gregg
Death yes Loading...
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