Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand DuchessAge: 541864–1918
- Name
- Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
- Given names
- Elizabeth "Ella"
- Name suffix
- Grand Duchess
- Nickname
- Ella
| Birth | 1864 27 20 |
| Birth of a sister | 1866 (Age 2)
younger sister -
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 3) 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 4)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 4) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 5) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a brother | 1870 (Age 6)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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| Birth of a sister | 6 June 1872 (Age 8) Darmstadt, Germany
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 8) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Death of a brother | 1873 (Age 9)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 9) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | 1874 (Age 10)
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 11) 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 sister | 1878 (Age 14) Hesse-Darmstadt, Palace, Germany
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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| Death of a mother | 14 December 1878 (Age 14) Darmstadt, Germany
mother -
Princess Alice Maud Mary …
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 14) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 15) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 16) 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 18) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 19) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage | Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke - View family 1884 (Age 20) |
| Marriage of a sister | Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse - View family 1884 (Age 20)
brother-in-law -
Prince Louis … Of Battenberg
elder sister -
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 23) 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 sister | Princess Irene … Of Hesse - View family 1888 (Age 24)
brother-in-law -
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
younger sister -
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 25) 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 26) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 27) 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 |
| Death of a father | 1892 (Age 28)
father -
Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 28) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 29) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family 1894 (Age 30)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
sister-in-law -
Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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| Marriage of a sister | Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina - View family 26 November 1894 (Age 30) Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
brother-in-law -
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Australian History | 1894 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 32) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 37) Osborne House, Isle Of Wight, England
maternal grandmother -
Alexandrina Victoria Hanover
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage of a brother | Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family 1905 (Age 41)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
sister-in-law -
Princess Eleonore … Of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
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| Death of a husband | February 1905 (Age 41)
husband -
Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 42) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 44) 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 45) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 46) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 49) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 50) 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 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 16 July 1918 (Age 54) Ekaterinburg, Russia
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 54) 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. |
| Death | 17 July 1918 (Age 54) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse
Birth 1837 Death 1892 (Age 55) Loading...
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6 years mother |
Princess Alice Maud Mary …
Birth 25 April 1843 23 23 Buckingham, Palace, London, England Death 14 December 1878 (Age 35) Darmstadt, Germany Loading...
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Marriage: 1 July 1862 — Osborne House, Isle Of Wight |
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6 months #1 elder sister |
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
Birth 1863 26 19 Death 1950 (Age 87) Loading...
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1 year #2 herself |
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
Birth 1864 27 20 Death 17 July 1918 (Age 54) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia Loading...
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2 years #3 younger sister |
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
Birth 1866 29 22 Death 1953 (Age 87) Loading...
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2 years #4 younger brother |
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
Birth 1868 31 24 Death 1937 (Age 69) Loading...
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2 years #5 younger brother |
Frederick …
Birth 1870 33 26 Death 1873 (Age 3) Loading...
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
Birth 6 June 1872 35 29 Darmstadt, Germany Death 16 July 1918 (Age 46) Ekaterinburg, Russia Loading...
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19 months #7 younger sister |
Mary "May" …
Birth 1874 37 30 Death 1878 (Age 4) Hesse-Darmstadt, Palace, Germany Loading...
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| Family with Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke - View family |
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Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1857 39 33 Death February 1905 (Age 48) Loading...
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7 years herself |
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
Birth 1864 27 20 Death 17 July 1918 (Age 54) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia Loading...
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Marriage: 1884 |
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess has 33 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (33)
Parents Frederick III … German Emperor + Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
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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