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Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of TeckAge: 591868–1927

Name
Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck
Given names
Adolphus 2Nd
Name suffix
Duke Of Teck
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Birth 1868 31 35
 

MarriageLady Margaret Grosvenor - View family
 

Australian History 1868
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 12 months)
 

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 2)
 

younger brother - Francis … Prince
Australian History 1872 (Age 4)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 5)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a brother 1874 (Age 6)
 

younger brother - Alexander George … Of Teck Earl Of Athlone
Australian History 1875 (Age 7)
 

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 10)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 11)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 12)
 

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 14)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 15)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a paternal grandfather 1885 (Age 17)
 

paternal grandfather - Duke Alexander … Of Wurttemberg
Australian History 1887 (Age 19)
 

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.
Death of a maternal grandmother 1889 (Age 21)
 

maternal grandmother - Princess Augusta … Of Hesse-Cassel
Australian History 1889 (Age 21)
 

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 22)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Marriage of a sisterQueen Mary … Of Teck - View family
6 July 1893 (Age 25)
 Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, London, England

brother-in-law - George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor
elder sister - Queen Mary … Of Teck
Australian History 1893 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

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 son
#1		 1895 (Age 27)
 

son - Marquess George … Of Cambridge
Australian History 1895 (Age 27)
 

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 28)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1897 (Age 29)
 

daughter - Lady Mary …
Death of a mother 1897 (Age 29)
 

mother - Mary Adelaide …
Australian History 1897 (Age 29)
 

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 30)
 

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 daughter
#3		 1899 (Age 31)
 

daughter - Helena … Lady
Australian History 1899 (Age 31)
 

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.
Death of a father 1900 (Age 32)
 

father - Francis … Duke Of Teck
Australian History 1900 (Age 32)
 

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 33)
 

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 34)
 

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 35)
 

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 36)
 

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 38)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 40)
 

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 41)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death of a brother 1910 (Age 42)
 

younger brother - Francis … Prince
Australian History 1910 (Age 42)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 43)
 

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 44)
 

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 45)
 

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 45)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 46)
 

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 47)
 

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 48)
 

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 49)
 

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 50)
 

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 (Age 51)
 

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 52)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 53)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 54)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 55)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 58)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Death 1927 (Age 59)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Francis … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1837 33 23  

Death 1900 (Age 63)  

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mother
Mary Adelaide …

Birth 1833 59 36  

Death 1897 (Age 64)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
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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#2 himself
Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1868 31 35  

Death 1927 (Age 59)  

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2 years
#3 younger brother
Francis … Prince

Birth 1870 33 37  

Death 1910 (Age 40)  

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4 years
#4 younger brother
Alexander George … Of Teck Earl Of Athlone

Birth 1874 37 41  

Death 1957 (Age 83)  

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Family with Lady Margaret Grosvenor - View family
himself
Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1868 31 35  

Death 1927 (Age 59)  

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5 years
wife
Lady Margaret Grosvenor

Birth 1873  

Death 1929 (Age 56)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 son
Marquess George … Of Cambridge

Birth 1895 27 22  

Death yes  

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#2 son
Son 2 …

Death yes  

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#3 daughter
Lady Mary …

Birth 1897 29 24  

Death yes  

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2 years
#4 daughter
Helena … Lady

Birth 1899 31 26  

Death 1969 (Age 70)  

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Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck has 5 first cousins recorded

Father's family (1)

Parents Baron Paul Von Hugel + Princess Amelie … Of Teck
1 Count Paul Von Hugel 1872–1912

Mother's family (4)

Parents Duke George … Of Cambridge + Sarah Fairbrother
1 George Fitzgeorge 1843–1907
2 Adolphus … 1846–1922
3 Agustus … 1847–1933
Parents Frederick William … Grand Duke + Augusta Caroline …
1 Adolphus Frederick V … Grand Duke 1848–1914

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