Alfonso XIII … King Of SpainAge: 551886–1941
- Name
- Alfonso XIII … King Of Spain
- Given names
- Alfonso XIII
- Name suffix
- King Of Spain
| Birth | 1886 |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 12 months) 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. |
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 3) 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 4) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 5) 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 6) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 7) 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 8) 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 9) 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 10) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 11) 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 12) 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 13) 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 14) 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 15) 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 16) 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 17) 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 18) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage | Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Battenberg - View family 1906 (Age 20) Church Of, San Jeronimo, Madrid, Spain |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 20) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1907 (Age 21) |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1908 (Age 22)
son -
James … Duke Of Segovia
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 22) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1909 (Age 23)
daughter -
Beatrice …
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 23) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 24) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | 1911 (Age 25)
daughter -
Maria Christina …
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 son #5 | June 1913 (Age 27) San Ildefonso, Spain
son -
Don Juan … Of Spain
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 27) 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 27) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Birth of a son #6 | 1914 (Age 28)
son -
Gonzalo …
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 34) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 35) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 36) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 37) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 40) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 41) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 42) 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 43) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 44) 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 45) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 46) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Marriage of a son | Count Alphonso … Of Cavadonga - View family 1933 (Age 47)
daughter-in-law -
Edelmira …
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 47) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death of a son | 1934 (Age 48)
son -
Gonzalo …
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| Marriage of a son | James … Duke Of Segovia - View family 1935 (Age 49)
son -
James … Duke Of Segovia
daughter-in-law -
Emmanuela De Dampierre …
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| Marriage of a daughter | Beatrice … - View family 1935 (Age 49)
son-in-law -
Prince Alexander Torlonia Of Civitella-Cessi
daughter -
Beatrice …
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 50) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Marriage of a son | Count Alphonso … Of Cavadonga - View family 1937 (Age 51)
daughter-in-law -
Martha Y Altazurra Rocafort
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 51) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 1938 (Age 52)
grandson -
Juan Carlos … King Of Spain
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| Death of a son | 1938 (Age 52) |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 52) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 53) 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 |
| Marriage of a daughter | Maria Christina … - View family 1940 (Age 54)
son-in-law -
Henry C. Marone
daughter -
Maria Christina …
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| Australian History | 1940 (Age 54) 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 1941 (on the date of death)
grandson -
Alphonso … Crown Prince
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| 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 55) Portugal |
| Family with Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Battenberg - View family |
| himself |
Alfonso XIII … King Of Spain
Birth 1886 Death 1941 (Age 55) Portugal Loading...
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22 months wife |
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Battenberg
Birth 24 October 1887 29 30 Death 1969 (Age 81) Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland Loading...
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Marriage: 1906 — Church Of, San Jeronimo, Madrid, Spain |
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1 year #1 son |
Count Alphonso … Of Cavadonga
Birth 1907 21 19 Death 1938 (Age 31) Loading...
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1 year #2 son |
James … Duke Of Segovia
Birth 1908 22 20 Death 1975 (Age 67) Loading...
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1 year #3 daughter |
Beatrice …
Birth 1909 23 21 Death yes Loading...
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2 years #4 daughter |
Maria Christina …
Birth 1911 25 23 Death yes Loading...
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| #5 son |
Don Jamie …
Death yes Loading...
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| #6 son |
Don Juan … Of Spain
Birth June 1913 27 25 San Ildefonso, Spain Death yes Loading...
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7 months #7 son |
Gonzalo …
Birth 1914 28 26 Death 1934 (Age 20) Loading...
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