Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-MeiningenAge: 591860–1919
- Name
- Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen
- Given names
- Charlotte
- Name prefix
- Duchess
- Name suffix
- Of Saxe-Meiningen
| Birth | 1860 28 19 |
| Marriage | Bernard … Of Saxe-Meiningen - View family |
| Australian History | 1860 Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 14 December 1861 (Age 23 months) Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
maternal grandfather -
Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel …
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| Australian History | 1861 (Age 12 months) 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 brother | 1862 (Age 2)
younger brother -
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1862 (Age 2) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 3) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Birth of a brother | 1864 (Age 4)
younger brother -
Sigismund …
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| Birth of a sister | 12 April 1866 (Age 6)
younger sister -
Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe
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| Death of a brother | 1866 (Age 6)
younger brother -
Sigismund …
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 7) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a brother | 1868 (Age 8)
younger brother -
Waldemar …
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 8) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 9) 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 | 14 June 1870 (Age 10) Potsdam, Germany
younger sister -
Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
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| Birth of a sister | 1872 (Age 12)
younger sister -
Princess Margarete … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 12) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 13) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 15) 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 18) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a brother | 1879 (Age 19)
younger brother -
Waldemar …
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 19) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 20) 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 22) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 23) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 27) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Prince Henry … Of Prussia - View family 1888 (Age 28)
younger brother -
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
sister-in-law -
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
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| Death of a paternal grandfather | 9 March 1888 (Age 28) Berlin, Germany
paternal grandfather -
Emperor William I … Of Germany
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| Death of a father | 15 June 1888 (Age 28) Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany
father -
Frederick III … German Emperor
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| Marriage of a sister | Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia - View family 27 October 1889 (Age 29) Athens, Greece
brother-in-law -
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
younger sister -
Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 29) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 1890 (Age 30)
paternal grandmother -
Augusta … Of Saxe-Weimar
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 30) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 31) 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 32) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 22 January 1901 (Age 41) Osborne House, Isle Of Wight, England
maternal grandmother -
Alexandrina Victoria Hanover
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| Death of a mother | 5 August 1901 (Age 41) Friedrichshof, Kronberg, Taunus, Germany |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 46) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 48) 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 49) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 50) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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 53) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 54) 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 55) 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 56) 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 57) 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 58) 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 (on the date of death) 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. |
| Death | 1919 (Age 59) |
| Family with parents - View family |
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Frederick III … German Emperor
Birth 18 October 1831 34 20 Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany Death 15 June 1888 (Age 56) Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany Loading...
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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 Loading...
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Marriage: 25 January 1858 — London, England |
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1 year #1 elder brother |
William II … German Emperor
Birth 27 January 1859 27 18 Berlin, Germany Death 4 June 1941 (Age 82) Haus Doorn, Netherlands Loading...
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11 months #2 herself |
Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen
Birth 1860 28 19 Death 1919 (Age 59) Loading...
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2 years #3 younger brother |
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
Birth 1862 30 21 Death 1929 (Age 67) Loading...
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2 years #4 younger brother |
Sigismund …
Birth 1864 32 23 Death 1866 (Age 2) Loading...
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2 years #5 younger sister |
Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe
Birth 12 April 1866 34 25 Death 1929 (Age 62) Loading...
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21 months #6 younger brother |
Waldemar …
Birth 1868 36 27 Death 1879 (Age 11) Loading...
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Birth 14 June 1870 38 29 Potsdam, Germany Death 13 January 1932 (Age 61) Frankfurt, Germany Loading...
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19 months #8 younger sister |
Princess Margarete … Of Hesse
Birth 1872 40 31 Death 1954 (Age 82) Loading...
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| Family with Bernard … Of Saxe-Meiningen - View family |
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Bernard … Of Saxe-Meiningen
Birth 1851 Death 1928 (Age 77) Loading...
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9 years herself |
Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen
Birth 1860 28 19 Death 1919 (Age 59) Loading...
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Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen has 32 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (32)
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
Parents Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse + Princess Alice Maud Mary …
Parents Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince + Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
Parents (Frederick) Christian Charles … Prince + Helena Augusta Victoria Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Parents Prince Arthur William Patrick … + Duchess Louise Margaret … Of Prussia
Parents Prince Leopold George Duncan … + Princess Helena Frederica … Of Waldeck
Parents Prince Henry Maurice … Of Battenberg + Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Battenberg
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