Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand DukeAge: 501891–1941
- Name
- Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke
- Given names
- Dmitri Pavlovich
- Surname
- Romanov
- Name suffix
- Grand Duke
| Birth | 1891 31 21 |
| Death of a mother | 1891
mother -
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1891 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 12 months) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 2) 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 3) 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 4) 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 |
| Birth of a half-brother | 1896 (Age 5)
half-brother -
Vladimir Romanov
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 5) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 6) 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 7) 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 8) 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 9) 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 10) 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 father | Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov - View family 1902 (Age 11) Leghorn, Italy
step-mother -
Olga Karnovich Princess
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 11) 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 12) 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 13) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a half-sister | 1905 (Age 14)
half-sister -
Natalie Romanov
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 15) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a half-sister | 1908 (Age 17)
half-sister -
Irina Romanov
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| Marriage of a sister | Maria Pavlovna Romanov - View family 1908 (Age 17)
brother-in-law -
William … Prince Of Sweden
elder sister -
Maria Pavlovna Romanov
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 17) 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 18) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 19) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 20) 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 21) 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 18 March 1913 (Age 22) Salonika, Greece
maternal grandfather -
George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 22) 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 22) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 half-brother | 1918 (Age 27)
half-brother -
Vladimir Romanov
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 27) 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 of a father | January 1919 (Age 28) Fortress Of, Peter And Paul, Russia |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 28) 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 29) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 30) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 31) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 32) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Marriage | Audrey Emery - View family 1926 (Age 35) Biarritz, France |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 1926 (Age 35)
maternal grandmother -
Princess Olga Constantinovna …
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 35) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 36) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 39) 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 40) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 41) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 42) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 45) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 46) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 47) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 48) 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 49) 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 (on the date of death) 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. |
| Death | 1941 (Age 50) Switzerland |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov
Birth 1860 42 36 Death January 1919 (Age 59) Fortress Of, Peter And Paul, Russia Loading...
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10 years mother |
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Birth 1870 24 19 Death 1891 (Age 21) Loading...
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Marriage: 1889 |
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1 year #1 elder sister |
Maria Pavlovna Romanov
Birth 1890 30 20 Death 1958 (Age 68) Loading...
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1 year #2 himself |
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1891 31 21 Death 1941 (Age 50) Switzerland Loading...
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| Father’s family with Olga Karnovich Princess - View family |
| father |
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov
Birth 1860 42 36 Death January 1919 (Age 59) Fortress Of, Peter And Paul, Russia Loading...
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6 years step-mother |
Olga Karnovich Princess
Birth 1866 Death 1929 (Age 63) Loading...
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Marriage: 1902 — Leghorn, Italy |
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-6 years #1 half-brother |
Vladimir Romanov
Birth 1896 36 30 Death 1918 (Age 22) Loading...
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9 years #2 half-sister |
Natalie Romanov
Birth 1905 45 39 Death yes Loading...
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3 years #3 half-sister |
Irina Romanov
Birth 1908 48 42 Death yes Loading...
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| Family with Audrey Emery - View family |
| himself |
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1891 31 21 Death 1941 (Age 50) Switzerland Loading...
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13 years wife |
Audrey Emery
Birth 1904 Death yes Loading...
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Marriage: 1926 — Biarritz, France |
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| #1 son |
Paul Romanov Prince Ilynsky
Death yes Loading...
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Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke has 34 first cousins recorded
Father's family (15)
Parents Alexander III Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Tsarina Dagmar "Marie" … Of Denmark
Parents Vladimir Romanov Grand Duke + Marie Pavlovna Grand Duchess
Parents Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince + Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
Mother's family (19)
Parents Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece + Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Parents George Oldenburg + Mary …
Parents Prince Nicholas … Of Greece + Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia
Parents Prince Andrew … Of Greece + Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
Parents Christopher Oldenburg + Anastasia Stewart
Extra information
Internal reference
I6328
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