Gregory RankinAge: 671878–1946
- Name
- Gregory Rankin
- Given names
- Gregory
- Surname
- Rankin
| Birth | 19 May 1878 43 42 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia |
| Marriage | Stella Morgan - View family |
| Australian History | 1878 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 7 months) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 19 months) 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 4) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Rankin
sister-in-law -
Ann Hendry
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 3) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a brother | John Rankin - View family 3 December 1883 (Age 5) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Rankin
sister-in-law -
Jean Bain
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| Australian History | 1883 (Age 4) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 8) 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 10) 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 11) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 12) 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 13) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 14) 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 15) 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 17) Tennyson, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Eleanor Buchanan
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 16) 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 17) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 18) 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 20) Spring Gully Rd, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Rankin
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21)
paternal grandfather -
James Rankin
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 21) 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 22) 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 of a brother | Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin - View family 1902 (Age 23) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
sister-in-law -
Catherine Ashley
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 23) 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 |
| Marriage of a brother | James Buchanan Rankin Sr. - View family 1903 (Age 24)
elder brother -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
sister-in-law -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 24) 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 25) 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 27) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 29) 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 30) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 31) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 32) 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 33) Rochester, Victoria, Australia
father -
Andrew Rankin
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 34) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 42) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 43) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 44) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 47) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 48) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 49) 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 50) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 51) 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 52) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Death of a brother | December 1931 (Age 53)
elder brother -
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
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| Australian History | 1932 (Age 53) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 54) 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 of a brother | 1936 (Age 57) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Rankin
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 57) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 58) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 59) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Death of a brother | 1939 (Age 60) Mitiamo, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Robert Rankin
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| Australian History | 1939 (Age 60) 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 (Age 61) 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 (Age 62) 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. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 63) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Death of a brother | 1943 (Age 64)
elder brother -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
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| Australian History | 1943 (Age 64) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 65) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 66) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (on the date of death) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Death | 1946 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia |
| 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 elder brother |
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 elder brother |
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6 years #7 himself |
Gregory Rankin
Birth 19 May 1878 43 42 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1946 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Stella Morgan - View family |
| himself |
Gregory Rankin
Birth 19 May 1878 43 42 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1946 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia |
| wife |
Stella Morgan
Death yes |
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Marriage: yes |