Andrew Sampson Thomas RankinAge: 611870–1931
- Name
- Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
- Given names
- Andrew Sampson Thomas
- Surname
- Rankin
| Birth | 17 July 1870 35 34 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia |
| Birth of a brother | 16 June 1872 (Age 22 months)
younger brother -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 17 months) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 2) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 4) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a brother | 19 May 1878 (Age 7) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Gregory Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 7) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 8) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 9) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage of a brother | David Rankin - View family 2 October 1882 (Age 12) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Rankin
sister-in-law -
Ann Hendry
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 11) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a brother | John Rankin - View family 3 December 1883 (Age 13) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Rankin
sister-in-law -
Jean Bain
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| Australian History | 1883 (Age 12) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 16) 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 18) 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 19) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 20) 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 21) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 22) 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 23) 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. |
| Death of a mother | 10 August 1895 (Age 25) Tennyson, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Eleanor Buchanan
|
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 24) 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 25) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 26) 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. |
| Death of a brother | 30 September 1898 (Age 28) Spring Gully Rd, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 27) 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 28) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 1900 (Age 29)
paternal grandfather -
James Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 |
| Marriage | Catherine Ashley - View family 1902 (Age 31) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 31) 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1903 (Age 32) Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Jean Amelia Rankin
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| Marriage of a brother | James Buchanan Rankin Sr. - View family 1903 (Age 32)
younger brother -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
sister-in-law -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 32) 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 33) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1906 (Age 35) Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Edna Victoria, Australia Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 35) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 39) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 40) 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 father | 1912 (Age 41) Rochester, Victoria, Australia
father -
Andrew Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 41) 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 daughter #3 | 1913 (Age 42) Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Dulcie Sylvia Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 42) 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 42) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 49) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 50) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 51) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 52) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 55) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 56) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 57) 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 58) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 59) 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 60) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Death | December 1931 (Age 61) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Andrew Rankin
Birth 1835 15 Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland Death 1912 (Age 77) Rochester, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year mother |
Eleanor Buchanan
Birth 1836 21 21 Donegal, Ireland Death 10 August 1895 (Age 59) Tennyson, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: about 1860 — Donegal, Ireland |
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-15 months #1 elder brother |
John Rankin
Birth October 1858 23 22 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death 30 September 1898 (Age 39) Spring Gully Rd, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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18 months #2 elder brother |
David Rankin
Birth 4 April 1860 25 24 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1936 (Age 75) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #3 elder brother |
Birth 10 August 1863 28 27 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1939 (Age 75) Mitiamo, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #4 elder sister |
Birth 1866 31 30 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1866 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia |
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5 years #5 himself |
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
Birth 17 July 1870 35 34 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death December 1931 (Age 61) |
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23 months #6 younger brother |
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6 years #7 younger brother |
Gregory Rankin
Birth 19 May 1878 43 42 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1946 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Catherine Ashley - View family |
| himself |
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
Birth 17 July 1870 35 34 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death December 1931 (Age 61) |
| wife |
Catherine Ashley
Death yes |
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Marriage: 1902 — Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #1 daughter |
Jean Amelia Rankin
Birth 1903 32 Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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3 years #2 daughter |
Edna Victoria, Australia Rankin
Birth 1906 35 Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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7 years #3 daughter |
Dulcie Sylvia Rankin
Birth 1913 42 Heathcote, Victoria, Australia Death yes |