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Alexander I Oldenburg King Of GreeceAge: 271893–1920

Name
Alexander I Oldenburg King Of Greece
Given names
Alexander I
Surname
Oldenburg
Name suffix
King Of Greece
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Birth 1 August 1893 24 23
 Tatoi, Greece

Australian History 1893
 

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 5 months)
 

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 17 months)
 

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 sister 2 May 1896 (Age 2)
 Athens, Greece

younger sister - Princess Helen … Of Greece
Australian History 1896 (Age 2)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 3)
 

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 4)
 

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 5)
 

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 6)
 

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 5 August 1901 (Age 8)
 Friedrichshof, Kronberg, Taunus, Germany

maternal grandmother - Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Birth of a brother 14 December 1901 (Age 8)
 Athens, Greece

younger brother - Paul I Oldenburg King Of Greece
Australian History 1901 (Age 7)
 

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 8)
 

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 9)
 

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 10)
 

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 12)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 14)
 

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 15)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 16)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 17)
 

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 18)
 

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
Birth of a brother 1913 (Age 19)
 

younger brother - Child 6 …
Death of a paternal grandfather 18 March 1913 (Age 19)
 Salonika, Greece

paternal grandfather - George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Australian History 1913 (Age 19)
 

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 19)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 20)
 

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 21)
 

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 22)
 

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 23)
 

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 24)
 

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.
MarriageAspasia Manos - View family
4 November 1919 (Age 26)
 Athens, Greece

Australian History 1919 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Death 25 October 1920 (Age 27)
 Athens, Greece

Birth of a daughter
#1		 1921 (2 months after death)
 

daughter - Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Burial
 Tatoi, Greece

Family with parents - View family
father
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece

Birth 2 August 1868 22 17  Athens, Greece

Death 11 January 1923 (Age 54)  Palermo, Italy

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22 months
mother
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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Marriage: 27 October 1889 — Athens, Greece
9 months
#1 elder brother
George II Oldenburg King Of Greece

Birth 19 July 1890 21 20  Tatoi, Near Athens, Greece

Death 1 April 1947 (Age 56)  Athens, Greece

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3 years
#2 himself
Alexander I Oldenburg King Of Greece

Birth 1 August 1893 24 23  Tatoi, Greece

Death 25 October 1920 (Age 27)  Athens, Greece

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3 years
#3 younger sister
Princess Helen … Of Greece

Birth 2 May 1896 27 25  Athens, Greece

Death 28 November 1982 (Age 86)  Lausanne, Switzerland

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6 years
#4 younger brother
Paul I Oldenburg King Of Greece

Birth 14 December 1901 33 31  Athens, Greece

Death 6 March 1964 (Age 62)  Tatoi, Near Athens, Greece

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#5 brother
Child 5 …

Death yes  

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#6 younger brother
Child 6 …

Birth 1913 44 42  

Death yes  

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Family with Aspasia Manos - View family
himself
Alexander I Oldenburg King Of Greece

Birth 1 August 1893 24 23  Tatoi, Greece

Death 25 October 1920 (Age 27)  Athens, Greece

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3 years
wife
Aspasia Manos

Birth 4 September 1896  Athens, Greece

Death 7 August 1972 (Age 75)  Venice, Italy

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Marriage: 4 November 1919 — Athens, Greece
14 months
#1 daughter
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece

Birth 1921 27 24  

Death yes  

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Alexander I Oldenburg King Of Greece has 25 first cousins recorded

Father's family (15)

Parents George Oldenburg + Mary …
1 Peter Oldenburg 1908–1980
2 Eugenia Oldenburg 1910–?
Parents Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov + Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
1 Maria Pavlovna Romanov 1890–1958
2 Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke 1891–1941
Parents Prince Nicholas … Of Greece + Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia
1 Princess Marina … Of Greece 1906–1968
2 Child 2 … ?–?
3 Child 3 … ?–?
4 Olga … Princess ?–?
5 Elizabeth … ?–?
Parents Prince Andrew … Of Greece + Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
1 Margarita Mountbatten 1905–1981
2 Theodora Mountbatten 1906–1960
3 Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece 1911–1937
4 Sophia … 1914–?
5 Philip Mountbatten 1921–?
Parents Christopher Oldenburg + Anastasia Stewart
1 Michael Oldenburg 1939–?

Mother's family (10)

Parents William II … German Emperor + Augusta … Of Schleswig Holstein
1 Crown Prince William … 1882–1951
2 Eitel Frederick … 1883–1942
3 Adalbert … 1884–1948
4 Augustus William … 1887–1949
5 Oscar … 1888–1958
6 Joachim … 1890–1920
7 Victoria, Australia Louise … Of Prussia 1892–1980
Parents Prince Henry … Of Prussia + Princess Irene … Of Hesse
1 Waldemar … 1889–1945
2 Henry … 1900–1904
3 Child #3 … ?–?

Extra information

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Last change 19 August 2011 - 06:43:46
 
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