Oscar II … King Of SwedenAge: 781829–1907
- Name
- Oscar II … King Of Sweden
- Given names
- Oscar II
- Name suffix
- King Of Sweden
| Birth | 21 January 1829 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Australian History | 1829 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 11 months) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Australian History | 1831 (Age 23 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Marriage | Sophia … - View family 6 June 1857 (Age 28) Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany |
| 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 #1 | 16 June 1858 (Age 29) Drottningholm, Near Stockholm, Sweden |
| Australian History | 1858 (Age 28) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1859 (Age 29)
son -
Oscar … Count Of Wisborg
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Birth of a son #3 | 1861 (Age 31) |
| 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. |
| Birth of a son #4 | 1865 (Age 35)
son -
Eugene … Duke Of Narke
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| 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. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 38) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Marriage of a son | Gustav V … King Of Sweden - View family 1881 (Age 51)
daughter-in-law -
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| Birth of a grandson #1 | 11 November 1882 (Age 53) Stockholm, Sweden |
| 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 |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 1884 (Age 54)
grandson -
William … Prince Of Sweden
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| 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. |
| Marriage of a son | Oscar … Count Of Wisborg - View family 1888 (Age 58)
son -
Oscar … Count Of Wisborg
daughter-in-law -
Ebba Munck Of Fulkila
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| Birth of a grandson #3 | 1889 (Age 59)
grandson -
Duke Erik … Of Vastmanland
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| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | 1889 (Age 59)
granddaughter -
Maria Bernadotte … Countess
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| 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | 1890 (Age 60)
grandson -
Count Carl Bernadotte Of Wisborg
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 60) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #6 | 1892 (Age 62)
granddaughter -
Countess Sophia Bernadotte … Of Wisborg
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 62) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a granddaughter #7 | 1893 (Age 63)
granddaughter -
Countess Elsa Bernadotte … Of Wisborg
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #8 | 1895 (Age 65)
grandson -
Folke Bernadotte … Count Of Wisborg
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| 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 |
| Marriage of a son | Prince Charles … Of Sweden - View family 1897 (Age 67)
daughter-in-law -
Ingeborg … Of Denmark
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| 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. |
| Birth of a granddaughter #9 | 1899 (Age 69)
granddaughter -
Margaretha …
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| 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. |
| 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #10 | 1901 (Age 71)
granddaughter -
Crown Princess Martha … Of Sweden
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Marriage of a grandson | Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf "Gustaf" Adolf Bernadotte - View family 15 June 1905 (Age 76) Windsor, England
grandson's wife -
Crown Princess Margaret … Of Sweden
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| Birth of a granddaughter #11 | 17 November 1905 (Age 76)
granddaughter -
Princess Astrid … Of Sweden
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 76) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death | 8 December 1907 (Age 78) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Burial | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Family with Sophia … - View family |
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Oscar II … King Of Sweden
Birth 21 January 1829 Stockholm, Sweden Death 8 December 1907 (Age 78) Stockholm, Sweden Loading...
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8 years wife |
Sophia …
Birth 9 July 1836 Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany Death 30 December 1913 (Age 77) Stockholm, Sweden Loading...
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Marriage: 6 June 1857 — Biebrich, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany |
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1 year #1 son |
Gustav V … King Of Sweden
Birth 16 June 1858 29 21 Drottningholm, Near Stockholm, Sweden Death 29 October 1950 (Age 92) Drottningholm, Near Stockholm, Sweden Loading...
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7 months #2 son |
Oscar … Count Of Wisborg
Birth 1859 29 22 Death 1953 (Age 94) Loading...
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2 years #3 son |
Prince Charles … Of Sweden
Birth 1861 31 24 Death 1951 (Age 90) Loading...
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4 years #4 son |
Eugene … Duke Of Narke
Birth 1865 35 28 Death 1947 (Age 82) Loading...
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