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Frederick III … German EmperorAge: 561831–1888

Name
Frederick III … German Emperor
Given names
Frederick III
Name suffix
German Emperor
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Birth 18 October 1831 34 20
 Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

Australian History 1831
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 2 months)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 14 months)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 3)
 

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.
Australian History 1836 (Age 4)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 6)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 7)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Death of a paternal grandfather 1840 (Age 8)
 

paternal grandfather - King Frederick William III … Of Prussia
Australian History 1840 (Age 8)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 9)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 10)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 11)
 

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).
Australian History 1845 (Age 13)
 

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.
Australian History 1850 (Age 18)
 

Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments
Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded.
Australian History 1851 (Age 19)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 21)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 22)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 25)
 

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.
MarriageVictoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - View family
25 January 1858 (Age 26)
 London, England

Australian History 1858 (Age 26)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Birth of a son
#1		 27 January 1859 (Age 27)
 Berlin, Germany

son - William II … German Emperor
Australian History 1859 (Age 27)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1860 (Age 28)
 

daughter - Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen
Australian History 1860 (Age 28)
 

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 29)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Birth of a son
#3		 1862 (Age 30)
 

son - Prince Henry … Of Prussia
Australian History 1862 (Age 30)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 31)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a son
#4		 1864 (Age 32)
 

son - Sigismund …
Birth of a daughter
#5		 12 April 1866 (Age 34)
 

daughter - Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe
Death of a son 1866 (Age 34)
 

son - Sigismund …
Australian History 1867 (Age 35)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a son
#6		 1868 (Age 36)
 

son - Waldemar …
Australian History 1868 (Age 36)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 37)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a daughter
#7		 14 June 1870 (Age 38)
 Potsdam, Germany

daughter - Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Birth of a daughter
#8		 1872 (Age 40)
 

daughter - Princess Margarete … Of Hesse
Australian History 1872 (Age 40)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 41)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 43)
 

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 46)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Death of a son 1879 (Age 47)
 

son - Waldemar …
Australian History 1879 (Age 47)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 48)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 1882 (Age 50)
 

grandson - Crown Prince William …
Australian History 1882 (Age 50)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 1883 (Age 51)
 

grandson - Eitel Frederick …
Australian History 1883 (Age 51)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a grandson
#3		 1884 (Age 52)
 

grandson - Adalbert …
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1887 (Age 55)
 

grandson - Augustus William …
Australian History 1887 (Age 55)
 

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 grandson
#5		 1888 (Age 56)
 

grandson - Oscar …
Marriage of a sonPrince Henry … Of Prussia - View family
1888 (Age 56)
 

son - Prince Henry … Of Prussia
daughter-in-law - Princess Irene … Of Hesse
Death of a father 9 March 1888 (Age 56)
 Berlin, Germany

father - Emperor William I … Of Germany
Death 15 June 1888 (Age 56)
 Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

Burial
 Friedenskirche, Potsdam, Germany

Family with parents - View family
father
Emperor William I … Of Germany

Birth 22 March 1797 27 21  Berlin, Germany

Death 9 March 1888 (Age 90)  Berlin, Germany

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14 years
mother
Augusta … Of Saxe-Weimar

Birth 1811  

Death 1890 (Age 79)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
Louise …

Birth 1828 30 17  

Death 1923 (Age 95)  

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4 years
#2 himself
Frederick III … German Emperor

Birth 18 October 1831 34 20  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

Death 15 June 1888 (Age 56)  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

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Family with Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - View family
himself
Frederick III … German Emperor

Birth 18 October 1831 34 20  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

Death 15 June 1888 (Age 56)  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

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9 years
wife
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Birth 21 November 1840 21 21  Buckingham, Palace, London, England

Death 5 August 1901 (Age 60)  Friedrichshof, Kronberg, Taunus, Germany

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Marriage: 25 January 1858 — London, England
1 year
#1 son
William II … German Emperor

Birth 27 January 1859 27 18  Berlin, Germany

Death 4 June 1941 (Age 82)  Haus Doorn, Netherlands

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11 months
#2 daughter
Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen

Birth 1860 28 19  

Death 1919 (Age 59)  

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2 years
#3 son
Prince Henry … Of Prussia

Birth 1862 30 21  

Death 1929 (Age 67)  

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2 years
#4 son
Sigismund …

Birth 1864 32 23  

Death 1866 (Age 2)  

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2 years
#5 daughter
Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe

Birth 12 April 1866 34 25  

Death 1929 (Age 62)  

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21 months
#6 son
Waldemar …

Birth 1868 36 27  

Death 1879 (Age 11)  

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2 years
#7 daughter
Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia

Birth 14 June 1870 38 29  Potsdam, Germany

Death 13 January 1932 (Age 61)  Frankfurt, Germany

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19 months
#8 daughter
Princess Margarete … Of Hesse

Birth 1872 40 31  

Death 1954 (Age 82)  

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Frederick III … German Emperor has 9 first cousins recorded

Father's family (9)

Parents Nicholas I Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia
1 Alexander II Nicholoevich Romanov Tsar Of Russia 1818–1881
2 Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia 1827–1892
3 Nicholas Romanov 1831–1891
4 Michael Romanov 1832–1909
Parents Paul Frederick … Grand Duke + Alexandrine …
1 Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg- 1823–1883
Parents Prince Frederik … Of Netherlands + Louisa … Of Prussia
1 Louise … 1828–1871
2 Frederick … 1833–1834
3 William … 1836–1846
4 Marie … 1841–1910

Mother's family (0)

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