Caroline LawsonAge: 621866–1929
- Name
- Caroline Lawson
- Given names
- Caroline
- Surname
- Lawson
| Birth | 22 June 1866 24 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Birth of a sister | July 1867 (Age 12 months) Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
younger sister -
Mary Lawson
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 6 months) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a sister | 7 December 1868 (Age 2) "Errowanbang", Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
younger sister -
Eleanor Lawson
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 18 months) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 2) 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 | 12 January 1870 (Age 3) Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
younger sister -
Florence Lawson
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 5) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Death of a brother | 17 September 1873 (Age 7) Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
brother -
William Lawson
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 6) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a brother | 6 November 1874 (Age 8) "Errowanbang", Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
William Frederick Lawson
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| Death of a paternal grandmother | 3 July 1875 (Age 9) Prospect, New South Wales, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Caroline Icely
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 8) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Death of a father | 19 May 1877 (Age 10) "Veteran Hall", Prospect, New South Wales, Australia
father -
Thomas James Lawson
|
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 11) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 12) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 13) 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 15) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 16) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage | Alexander Learmonth - View family 4 August 1886 (Age 20) Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia Address: St. Johns Church, |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 20) 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 22) 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 23) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 24) 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 25) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 26) 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 27) 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 28) 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 29) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Marriage of a sister | Florence Lawson - View family 5 February 1897 (Age 30) New South Wales, Australia
brother-in-law -
Sir Adrian Knox
younger sister -
Florence Lawson
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| Marriage of a sister | Eleanor Lawson - View family June 1897 (Age 30)
brother-in-law -
General Sir James Melville Babington
younger sister -
Eleanor Lawson
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 30) 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. |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary Lawson - View family 21 December 1898 (Age 32) Kent, England
brother-in-law -
Reginald Waterfield
younger sister -
Mary Lawson
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 39) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 41) 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 42) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 43) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 44) 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. |
| Death of a mother | 13 February 1912 (Age 45) Cheltenham, London, England
mother -
Eleanor Margaret Murray
|
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 46) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 51) 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 52) 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 53) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 54) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 55) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 56) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 59) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 60) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 61) 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 (on the date of death) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Death | 1929 (Age 62) New South Wales, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Thomas James Lawson
Birth 23 September 1841 37 "Errowanbang", Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia Death 19 May 1877 (Age 35) "Veteran Hall", Prospect, New South Wales, Australia |
| mother |
Eleanor Margaret Murray
Death 13 February 1912 Cheltenham, London, England |
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Marriage: 13 September 1865 — Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia |
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9 months #1 herself |
Caroline Lawson
Birth 22 June 1866 24 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 1929 (Age 62) New South Wales, Australia |
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1 year #2 younger sister |
Mary Lawson
Birth July 1867 25 Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia Death yes |
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17 months #3 younger sister |
Eleanor Lawson
Birth 7 December 1868 27 "Errowanbang", Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia Death yes |
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13 months #4 younger sister |
Florence Lawson
Birth 12 January 1870 28 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia Death yes |
| #5 brother |
William Lawson
Birth 5 September New South Wales, Australia Death 17 September 1873 Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia |
| #6 younger brother |
Birth 6 November 1874 33 "Errowanbang", Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia Death yes |
| Family with Alexander Learmonth - View family |
| husband |
Alexander Learmonth
Death yes |
| herself |
Caroline Lawson
Birth 22 June 1866 24 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 1929 (Age 62) New South Wales, Australia |
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Marriage: 4 August 1886 — Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia |