Carol II Hohenzollern King Of RomaniaAge: 591893–1953
- Name
- Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania
- Given names
- Carol II
- Surname
- Hohenzollern
- Name suffix
- King Of Romania
| Birth | 15 October 1893 28 17 Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania |
| Australian History | 1893 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 sister | 12 October 1894 (Age 11 months) Pelesch, Romania
younger sister -
Princess Elizabeth Hohenzollern Of Romania
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| Australian History | 1894 (Age 2 months) 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 14 months) 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 2) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 3) 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 4) 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 5) 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. |
| Birth of a sister | 1900 (Age 6)
younger sister -
Marie Hohenzollern
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| Death of a maternal grandfather | 30 July 1900 (Age 6) Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
maternal grandfather -
Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 6) 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 7) 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 8) 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 |
| Birth of a brother | 1903 (Age 9)
younger brother -
Nicholas Hohenzollern
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 9) 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 10) 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 12) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 14) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a sister | 1909 (Age 15)
younger sister -
Ileana Hohenzollern
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 15) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 16) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 17) 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 18) 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 sister | 1913 (Age 19)
younger sister -
Mircea Hohenzollern
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 19) 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 19) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 20) 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 21) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 2 November 1916 (Age 23)
younger sister -
Mircea Hohenzollern
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| Australian History | 1916 (Age 22) 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 23) 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. |
| Marriage | Joana Maria Valentina Lambrino - View family 31 August 1918 (Age 24) Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 24) 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 25) 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. |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 25 October 1920 (Age 27) Zurich, Switzerland
maternal grandmother -
Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 26) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Marriage of a sister | Princess Elizabeth Hohenzollern Of Romania - View family 27 February 1921 (Age 27) Bucharest, Romania
brother-in-law -
George II Oldenburg King Of Greece
younger sister -
Princess Elizabeth Hohenzollern Of Romania
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| Marriage | Princess Helen … Of Greece - View family 10 March 1921 (Age 27) Athens, Greece |
| Birth of a son #1 | 25 October 1921 (Age 28) Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 27) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 28) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 29) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 32) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Death of a father | 20 July 1927 (Age 33) Sinaia, Romania |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 33) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 34) 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 35) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 36) 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 37) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 38) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 39) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 42) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 43) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a mother | 10 July 1938 (Age 44) Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 44) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 45) 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 |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 46) 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. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 47) 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. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 48) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 49) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 50) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 51) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 52) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Marriage | Elena (Magda) Lupescu - View family 3 June 1947 (Age 53) Rio DE Janerio, Brazil |
| Marriage of a son | Michael Hohenzollern King Of Romania - View family 10 June 1948 (Age 54) Athens, Greece
daughter-in-law -
Anne Bourbon-Parma
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| Australian History | 1948 (Age 54) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1949 (Age 55) Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland
granddaughter -
Princess Margarita … Of Romania
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| Australian History | 1949 (Age 55) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | 1950 (Age 56) Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland
granddaughter -
Princess Helen … Of Romania
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| Australian History | 1950 (Age 56) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 57) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 58) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Birth of a granddaughter #3 | 1953 (Age 59) Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland
granddaughter -
Irina … Princess
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| Death of a wife | 11 March 1953 (Age 59) Paris, France |
| Death | 4 April 1953 (Age 59) Villa Mar Y Sol, Estoril, Portugal |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
King Of Romania Ferdinand I Hohenzollern Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Birth 24 August 1865 Sigmaringen, Germany Death 20 July 1927 (Age 61) Sinaia, Romania Loading...
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10 years mother |
Queen Of Romania Marie … Of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Birth 29 October 1875 31 22 Eastwell Park, Kent, England Death 10 July 1938 (Age 62) Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Loading...
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Marriage: 10 January 1893 — Sigmaringen, Germany |
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9 months #1 himself |
Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania
Birth 15 October 1893 28 17 Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Death 4 April 1953 (Age 59) Villa Mar Y Sol, Estoril, Portugal Loading...
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1 year #2 younger sister |
Princess Elizabeth Hohenzollern Of Romania
Birth 12 October 1894 29 18 Pelesch, Romania Death 14 November 1956 (Age 62) Cannes, France Loading...
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5 years #3 younger sister |
Marie Hohenzollern
Birth 1900 34 24 Death 1961 (Age 61) Loading...
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3 years #4 younger brother |
Nicholas Hohenzollern
Birth 1903 37 27 Death 1978 (Age 75) Loading...
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6 years #5 younger sister |
Ileana Hohenzollern
Birth 1909 43 33 Death yes Loading...
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4 years #6 younger sister |
Mircea Hohenzollern
Birth 1913 47 37 Death 2 November 1916 (Age 3) Loading...
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| Family with Joana Maria Valentina Lambrino - View family |
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Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania
Birth 15 October 1893 28 17 Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Death 4 April 1953 (Age 59) Villa Mar Y Sol, Estoril, Portugal Loading...
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5 years wife |
Joana Maria Valentina Lambrino
Birth 3 October 1898 Roman, Romania Death 11 March 1953 (Age 54) Paris, France Loading...
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Marriage: 31 August 1918 — Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine |
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| #1 son |
Son Hohenzollern
Death yes Loading...
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| Family with Princess Helen … Of Greece - View family |
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Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania
Birth 15 October 1893 28 17 Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Death 4 April 1953 (Age 59) Villa Mar Y Sol, Estoril, Portugal Loading...
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3 years wife |
Princess Helen … Of Greece
Birth 2 May 1896 27 25 Athens, Greece Death 28 November 1982 (Age 86) Lausanne, Switzerland Loading...
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Marriage: 10 March 1921 — Athens, Greece |
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8 months #1 son |
Michael Hohenzollern King Of Romania
Birth 25 October 1921 28 25 Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Death yes Loading...
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| Family with Elena (Magda) Lupescu - View family |
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Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania
Birth 15 October 1893 28 17 Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania Death 4 April 1953 (Age 59) Villa Mar Y Sol, Estoril, Portugal Loading...
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23 months wife |
Elena (Magda) Lupescu
Birth 15 September 1895 Jassy, Romania Death 28 June 1977 (Age 81) Estoril, Portugal Loading...
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Marriage: 3 June 1947 — Rio DE Janerio, Brazil |
Carol II Hohenzollern King Of Romania has 3 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (3)
Parents Cyril Vladimirovitch Romanov Grand Duke + Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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