James Alfred BilsonAge: 791854–1933
- Name
- James Alfred Bilson
- Given names
- James Alfred
- Surname
- Bilson
| Birth | 1854 |
| Australian History | 1854 Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 12 months) 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 2) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 3) 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 4) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 5) 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 6) 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 7) 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 8) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 9) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 13) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 14) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 15) 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 18) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 19) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 21) 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 24) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 25) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 26) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage | Mary Ellinor Madill - View family 1881 (Age 27) |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1882 (Age 28) Undera, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Frankling Bilson
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 28) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 29) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1884 (Age 30) Undera, Victoria, Australia
son -
Reginald Madill Bilson
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| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1886 (Age 32) Undera, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Ellen May Bilson
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 33) 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. |
| Birth of a son #4 | 1888 (Age 34) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
son -
David Leslie Bilson
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 35) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Birth of a son #5 | 1890 (Age 36) Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
son -
Alfred Osland Bilson
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 36) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a son #6 | 1893 (Age 39) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
James Arthur Bilson
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| Australian History | 1893 (Age 39) 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. |
| Death of a son | 1894 (Age 40) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Frankling Bilson
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| Death of a son | 1894 (Age 40) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
James Arthur Bilson
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| Australian History | 1894 (Age 40) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #7 | 1895 (Age 41) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 41) 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 42) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #8 | 1900 (Age 46) Barwon, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Irene Mary Bilson
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 52) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 56) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 57) 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 58) 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1913 (Age 59)
granddaughter -
Phyllis Edna Bilson
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 59) 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 59) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 60) 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 61) 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 62) 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 63) 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. |
| Marriage of a son | Reginald Madill Bilson - View family 1918 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia
son -
Reginald Madill Bilson
daughter-in-law -
Effie Lavenia Jenkins
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 64) 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 65) 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 1920 (Age 66) Terang, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Alfred James Leonard Bilson
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 66) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 67) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 68) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 69) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 72) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 73) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 74) 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 (Age 75) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 76) 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 (Age 77) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 78) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (on the date of death) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death | 1933 (Age 79) Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Mary Ellinor Madill - View family |
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James Alfred Bilson
Birth 1854 Death 1933 (Age 79) Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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7 years wife |
Mary Ellinor Madill
Birth 11 August 1860 30 30 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1957 (Age 96) Huntly, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 1881 |
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1 year #1 son |
Walter Frankling Bilson
Birth 1882 28 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1894 (Age 12) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #2 son |
Reginald Madill Bilson
Birth 1884 30 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1967 (Age 83) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #3 daughter |
Ellen May Bilson
Birth 1886 32 25 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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2 years #4 son |
David Leslie Bilson
Birth 1888 34 27 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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2 years #5 son |
Alfred Osland Bilson
Birth 1890 36 29 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia Death 1968 (Age 78) Prahran, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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3 years #6 son |
James Arthur Bilson
Birth 1893 39 32 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Death 1894 (Age 12 months) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #7 daughter |
Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson
Birth 1895 41 34 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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5 years #8 daughter |
Irene Mary Bilson
Birth 1900 46 39 Barwon, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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