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Augusta … Of Saxe-WeimarAge: 791811–1890

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Augusta … Of Saxe-Weimar
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Augusta
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Of Saxe-Weimar
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Birth 1811
 

MarriageEmperor William I … Of Germany - View family
 

Australian History 1817 (Age 6)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 7)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 13)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 14)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 1828 (Age 17)
 

daughter - Louise …
Australian History 1828 (Age 17)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 18)
 

Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain.
Australian History 1830 (Age 19)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Birth of a son
#2		 18 October 1831 (Age 20)
 Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

son - Frederick III … German Emperor
Australian History 1831 (Age 20)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 21)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 22)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 27)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 28)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 29)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 30)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 31)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 32)
 

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 34)
 

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.
Australian History 1850 (Age 39)
 

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.
Australian History 1851 (Age 40)
 

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 42)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 43)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 44)
 

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 45)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 46)
 

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.
Marriage of a sonFrederick III … German Emperor - View family
25 January 1858 (Age 47)
 London, England

son - Frederick III … German Emperor
daughter-in-law - Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Australian History 1858 (Age 47)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 27 January 1859 (Age 48)
 Berlin, Germany

grandson - William II … German Emperor
Australian History 1859 (Age 48)
 

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 granddaughter
#2		 1860 (Age 49)
 

granddaughter - Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen
Australian History 1860 (Age 49)
 

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 50)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Birth of a grandson
#3		 1862 (Age 51)
 

grandson - Prince Henry … Of Prussia
Australian History 1862 (Age 51)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 52)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1864 (Age 53)
 

grandson - Sigismund …
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 12 April 1866 (Age 55)
 

granddaughter - Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe
Death of a grandson 1866 (Age 55)
 

grandson - Sigismund …
Australian History 1867 (Age 56)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a grandson
#6		 1868 (Age 57)
 

grandson - Waldemar …
Australian History 1868 (Age 57)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 58)
 

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
#7		 14 June 1870 (Age 59)
 Potsdam, Germany

granddaughter - Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Birth of a granddaughter
#8		 1872 (Age 61)
 

granddaughter - Princess Margarete … Of Hesse
Australian History 1872 (Age 61)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 62)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 64)
 

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 67)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Death of a grandson 1879 (Age 68)
 

grandson - Waldemar …
Australian History 1879 (Age 68)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 69)
 

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 71)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 72)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 76)
 

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.
Marriage of a grandsonPrince Henry … Of Prussia - View family
1888 (Age 77)
 

grandson - Prince Henry … Of Prussia
grandson's wife - Princess Irene … Of Hesse
Death of a husband 9 March 1888 (Age 77)
 Berlin, Germany

husband - Emperor William I … Of Germany
Death of a son 15 June 1888 (Age 77)
 Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

son - Frederick III … German Emperor
Marriage of a granddaughterQueen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia - View family
27 October 1889 (Age 78)
 Athens, Greece

granddaughter's husband - Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
granddaughter - Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
Australian History 1889 (Age 78)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History 1890 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Death 1890 (Age 79)
 

Family with Emperor William I … Of Germany - View family
husband
Emperor William I … Of Germany

Birth 22 March 1797 27 21  Berlin, Germany

Death 9 March 1888 (Age 90)  Berlin, Germany

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Augusta … Of Saxe-Weimar

Birth 1811  

Death 1890 (Age 79)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 daughter
Louise …

Birth 1828 30 17  

Death 1923 (Age 95)  

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4 years
#2 son
Frederick III … German Emperor

Birth 18 October 1831 34 20  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

Death 15 June 1888 (Age 56)  Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany

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