Grand Duchess Kira … Of RussiaAge: 581909–1967
- Name
- Grand Duchess Kira … Of Russia
- Given names
- Kira
- Name prefix
- Grand Duchess
- Name suffix
- Of Russia
| Birth | 1909 33 33 |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 1909
paternal grandfather -
Vladimir Romanov Grand Duke
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| Australian History | 1909 Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 12 months) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 2) 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 3) 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 |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 4) 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 4) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 5) 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 6) 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 7) 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 |
| Birth of a brother | 30 August 1917 (Age 8) Near Borga, Finland, Finland
younger brother -
Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov Grand Duke
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| Australian History | 1917 (Age 8) 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 9) 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 10) 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 paternal grandmother | 1920 (Age 11)
paternal grandmother -
Marie Pavlovna Grand Duchess
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| Death of a maternal grandmother | 25 October 1920 (Age 11) Zurich, Switzerland
maternal grandmother -
Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 11) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 12) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 13) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 14) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 17) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 18) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 19) 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 20) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 21) 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 22) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 23) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 24) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Marriage of a brother | Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov Grand Duke - View family 1934 (Age 25)
younger brother -
Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov Grand Duke
sister-in-law -
Sumner M. Kirby
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| Death of a mother | 1936 (Age 27) |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 27) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 28) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a father | 1938 (Age 29) |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 29) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 34) 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. |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1944 (Age 35) |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 39) 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. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 40) 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. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 41) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 1951 (Age 42)
elder sister -
Grand Duchess Maria … Of Russia
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| Australian History | 1951 (Age 42) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 43) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 45) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 46) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 47) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 48) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 53) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 55) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 56) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 57) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 57) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | 1967 (on the date of death) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. |
| Death | 1967 (Age 58) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Cyril Vladimirovitch Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 1876 29 22 Death 1938 (Age 62) Loading...
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| mother |
Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Birth 1876 31 22 Malta Death 1936 (Age 60) Loading...
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Marriage: 1905 — Tegernsee, Bavaria |
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2 years #1 elder sister |
Grand Duchess Maria … Of Russia
Birth 1907 31 31 Death 1951 (Age 44) Loading...
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2 years #2 herself |
Grand Duchess Kira … Of Russia
Birth 1909 33 33 Death 1967 (Age 58) Loading...
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9 years #3 younger brother |
Vladimir Cyrilovitch Romanov Grand Duke
Birth 30 August 1917 41 41 Near Borga, Finland, Finland Death yes Loading...
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| Mother’s family with Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family |
| step-father |
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
Birth 1868 31 24 Death 1937 (Age 69) Loading...
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8 years mother |
Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Birth 1876 31 22 Malta Death 1936 (Age 60) Loading...
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Marriage: 1894 |
| Family with Prince Louis Ferdinand … Of Prussia - View family |
| husband |
Prince Louis Ferdinand … Of Prussia
Birth 1907 25 21 Death yes Loading...
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2 years herself |
Grand Duchess Kira … Of Russia
Birth 1909 33 33 Death 1967 (Age 58) Loading...
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| #4 son |
Prince Louis Ferdinand … Of Prussia
Birth 1944 37 35 Death 1977 (Age 33) Loading...
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| #6 daughter |
Dau. 2 …
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Dau. 3 …
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Grand Duchess Kira … Of Russia has 11 first cousins recorded
Father's family (5)
Parents Prince Nicholas … Of Greece + Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia
Extra information
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