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Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of SaxeAge: 811830–1911

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Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe
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Elizabeth Alexandra
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Birth 1830
 

Australian History 1830
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 2)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 3)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 5)
 

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.
Australian History 1836 (Age 6)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 8)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 9)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 10)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 11)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 12)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 13)
 

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 15)
 

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.
MarriageGrand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia - View family
1848 (Age 18)
 

Death of a mother 1848 (Age 18)
 

mother - Duchess Amalie … Of Wurttemberg
Birth of a son
#1		 1850 (Age 20)
 

son - Nicholas Romanov
Australian History 1850 (Age 20)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1851 (Age 21)
 

daughter - Princess Olga Constantinovna …
Australian History 1851 (Age 21)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 24)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 27)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#3		 1858 (Age 28)
 

son - Constantine Romanov
Australian History 1858 (Age 28)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 29)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#4		 1860 (Age 30)
 

son - Dimitri Romanov
Australian History 1860 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

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 32)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 33)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Marriage of a daughterPrincess Olga Constantinovna … - View family
1867 (Age 37)
 

son-in-law - George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
daughter - Princess Olga Constantinovna …
Australian History 1867 (Age 37)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 2 August 1868 (Age 38)
 Athens, Greece

grandson - Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
Death of a father 1868 (Age 38)
 

father - Duke Joseph … Of Saxe-Altenburg
Australian History 1868 (Age 38)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 1869 (Age 39)
 

grandson - George Oldenburg
Australian History 1869 (Age 39)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a granddaughter
#3		 1870 (Age 40)
 

granddaughter - Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1872 (Age 42)
 

grandson - Prince Nicholas … Of Greece
Australian History 1872 (Age 42)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 43)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 45)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 1876 (Age 46)
 

granddaughter - Mary …
Australian History 1878 (Age 48)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 49)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 50)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a grandson
#6		 1881 (Age 51)
 

grandson - Artemi Romanov Prince Iskander
Birth of a grandson
#7		 1882 (Age 52)
 

grandson - Prince Andrew … Of Greece
Marriage of a sonNicholas Romanov - View family
1882 (Age 52)
 

son - Nicholas Romanov
daughter-in-law - Nadezhda Dreyer
Australian History 1882 (Age 52)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 53)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Marriage of a sonConstantine Romanov - View family
1884 (Age 54)
 

son - Constantine Romanov
daughter-in-law - Elizabeth …
Birth of a grandson
#8		 1886 (Age 56)
 

grandson - Ivan Romanov
Australian History 1887 (Age 57)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#9		 1888 (Age 58)
 

grandson - Christopher Oldenburg
Marriage of a grandsonConstantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece - View family
27 October 1889 (Age 59)
 Athens, Greece

grandson - Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
grandson's wife - Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Marriage of a granddaughterPrincess Alexandra … Of Greece - View family
1889 (Age 59)
 

husband's nephew - Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov
granddaughter - Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Australian History 1889 (Age 59)
 

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 60)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Birth of a grandson
#10		 1891 (Age 61)
 

grandson - Constantine Romanov
Death of a granddaughter 1891 (Age 61)
 

granddaughter - Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Australian History 1891 (Age 61)
 

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
Death of a husband 1892 (Age 62)
 

husband - Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia
Australian History 1892 (Age 62)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 63)
 

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
#11		 1894 (Age 64)
 

grandson - Igor Romanov
Australian History 1894 (Age 64)
 

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 65)
 

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 66)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 67)
 

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 68)
 

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 69)
 

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.
Marriage of a granddaughterMary … - View family
1900 (Age 70)
 

husband's nephew - George Romanov
granddaughter - Mary …
Australian History 1900 (Age 70)
 

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 71)
 

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 grandsonPrince Nicholas … Of Greece - View family
1902 (Age 72)
 

grandson - Prince Nicholas … Of Greece
grandson's wife - Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia
Australian History 1902 (Age 72)
 

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
Marriage of a grandsonPrince Andrew … Of Greece - View family
1903 (Age 73)
 

grandson - Prince Andrew … Of Greece
grandson's wife - Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
Australian History 1903 (Age 73)
 

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 74)
 

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 76)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Marriage of a grandsonGeorge Oldenburg - View family
1907 (Age 77)
 

grandson - George Oldenburg
grandson's wife - Mary …
Australian History 1908 (Age 78)
 

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 79)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 80)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Marriage of a grandsonIvan Romanov - View family
1911 (on the date of death)
 

grandson - Ivan Romanov
grandson's wife - Helen …
Australian History 1911 (on the date of death)
 

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.
Death 1911 (Age 81)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Duke Joseph … Of Saxe-Altenburg

Death 1868  

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mother
Duchess Amalie … Of Wurttemberg

Death 1848  

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Marriage: yes
#1 herself
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe

Birth 1830  

Death 1911 (Age 81)  

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Family with Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia - View family
husband
Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia

Birth 1827 31 29  

Death 1892 (Age 65)  

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3 years
herself
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe

Birth 1830  

Death 1911 (Age 81)  

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Marriage: 1848
2 years
#1 son
Nicholas Romanov

Birth 1850 23 20  

Death 1918 (Age 68)  

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1 year
#2 daughter
Princess Olga Constantinovna …

Birth 1851 24 21  

Death 1926 (Age 75)  

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7 years
#3 son
Constantine Romanov

Birth 1858 31 28  

Death 1915 (Age 57)  

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2 years
#4 son
Dimitri Romanov

Birth 1860 33 30  

Death 1919 (Age 59)  

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Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe has 4 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (4)

Parents Duke Alexander … Of Wurttemberg + Claudine … Countess Rhedey
1 Claudine … Princess Of Teck 1836–1894
2 Francis … Duke Of Teck 1837–1900
3 Princess Amelie … Of Teck 1838–1893
Parents Archduke Joseph … Of Austria + Maria …
1 Archduchess Elisabeth … Of Austria ?–?

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