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Francis … Duke Of TeckAge: 631837–1900

Name
Francis … Duke Of Teck
Given names
Francis
Name suffix
Duke Of Teck
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Birth 1837 33 23
 

MarriageMary Adelaide … - View family
 

Birth of a sister 1838 (Age 12 months)
 

younger sister - Princess Amelie … Of Teck
Australian History 1838 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 2)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 3)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Death of a mother 1841 (Age 4)
 

mother - Claudine … Countess Rhedey
Australian History 1841 (Age 4)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 5)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 6)
 

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 8)
 

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 13)
 

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 14)
 

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 16)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 17)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 18)
 

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 19)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 20)
 

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.
Australian History 1858 (Age 21)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 22)
 

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.
Australian History 1860 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Australian History 1862 (Age 25)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 26)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 26 May 1867 (Age 30)
 Kensington, Palace, London, England

daughter - Queen Mary … Of Teck
Australian History 1867 (Age 30)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a son
#2		 1868 (Age 31)
 

son - Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck
Australian History 1868 (Age 31)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 32)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a son
#3		 1870 (Age 33)
 

son - Francis … Prince
Australian History 1872 (Age 35)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 36)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a son
#4		 1874 (Age 37)
 

son - Alexander George … Of Teck Earl Of Athlone
Australian History 1875 (Age 38)
 

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 41)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 42)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 43)
 

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 45)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 46)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a father 1885 (Age 48)
 

father - Duke Alexander … Of Wurttemberg
Australian History 1887 (Age 50)
 

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 52)
 

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 53)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 54)
 

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 55)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Marriage of a daughterQueen Mary … Of Teck - View family
6 July 1893 (Age 56)
 Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, London, England

son-in-law - George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor
daughter - Queen Mary … Of Teck
Death of a sister 1893 (Age 56)
 

younger sister - Princess Amelie … Of Teck
Australian History 1893 (Age 56)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 23 June 1894 (Age 57)
 White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, England

grandson - Edward VIII Windsor Duke Of Windsor
Death of a sister 1894 (Age 57)
 

elder sister - Claudine … Princess Of Teck
Australian History 1894 (Age 57)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 14 December 1895 (Age 58)
 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England

grandson - Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor
Birth of a grandson
#3		 1895 (Age 58)
 

grandson - Marquess George … Of Cambridge
Australian History 1895 (Age 58)
 

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 59)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a granddaughter
#4		 25 April 1897 (Age 60)
 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England

granddaughter - Mary Windsor Princess Royal
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 1897 (Age 60)
 

granddaughter - Lady Mary …
Death of a wife 1897 (Age 60)
 

wife - Mary Adelaide …
Australian History 1897 (Age 60)
 

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 61)
 

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.
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 1899 (Age 62)
 

granddaughter - Helena … Lady
Australian History 1899 (Age 62)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#7		 31 March 1900 (Age 63)
 York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England

grandson - Henry William Frederick Windsor Duke
Australian History 1900 (on the date of death)
 

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 1900 (Age 63)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Duke Alexander … Of Wurttemberg

Birth 1804  

Death 1885 (Age 81)  

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10 years
mother
Claudine … Countess Rhedey

Birth 1814  

Death 1841 (Age 27)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
Claudine … Princess Of Teck

Birth 1836 32 22  

Death 1894 (Age 58)  

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1 year
#2 himself
Francis … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1837 33 23  

Death 1900 (Age 63)  

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1 year
#3 younger sister
Princess Amelie … Of Teck

Birth 1838 34 24  

Death 1893 (Age 55)  

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Family with Mary Adelaide … - View family
himself
Francis … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1837 33 23  

Death 1900 (Age 63)  

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-4 years
wife
Mary Adelaide …

Birth 1833 59 36  

Death 1897 (Age 64)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 daughter
Queen Mary … Of Teck

Birth 26 May 1867 30 34  Kensington, Palace, London, England

Death 24 March 1953 (Age 85)  Marlborough Hse, London, England

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7 months
#2 son
Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1868 31 35  

Death 1927 (Age 59)  

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2 years
#3 son
Francis … Prince

Birth 1870 33 37  

Death 1910 (Age 40)  

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4 years
#4 son
Alexander George … Of Teck Earl Of Athlone

Birth 1874 37 41  

Death 1957 (Age 83)  

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Francis … Duke Of Teck has 2 first cousins recorded

Father's family (2)

Parents Archduke Joseph … Of Austria + Maria …
1 Archduchess Elisabeth … Of Austria ?–?
Parents Duke Joseph … Of Saxe-Altenburg + Duchess Amalie … Of Wurttemberg
1 Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe 1830–1911

Mother's family (0)

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