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Francis … PrinceAge: 401870–1910

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Francis … Prince
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Francis
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Prince
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Birth 1870 33 37
 

Australian History 1872 (Age 2)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 3)
 

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

younger brother - Alexander George … Of Teck Earl Of Athlone
Australian History 1875 (Age 5)
 

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 8)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 9)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 10)
 

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 12)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 13)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a paternal grandfather 1885 (Age 15)
 

paternal grandfather - Duke Alexander … Of Wurttemberg
Australian History 1887 (Age 17)
 

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 19)
 

maternal grandmother - Princess Augusta … Of Hesse-Cassel
Australian History 1889 (Age 19)
 

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 20)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 21)
 

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 22)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Marriage of a sisterQueen Mary … Of Teck - View family
6 July 1893 (Age 23)
 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 23)
 

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 24)
 

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 25)
 

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 26)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Death of a mother 1897 (Age 27)
 

mother - Mary Adelaide …
Australian History 1897 (Age 27)
 

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 28)
 

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 29)
 

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 30)
 

father - Francis … Duke Of Teck
Australian History 1900 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

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 32)
 

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 33)
 

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 34)
 

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 36)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 38)
 

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 39)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Death 1910 (Age 40)
 

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 elder brother
Adolphus 2Nd … Duke Of Teck

Birth 1868 31 35  

Death 1927 (Age 59)  

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2 years
#3 himself
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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Francis … Prince 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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