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Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg-Age: 601823–1883

Name
Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg-
Given names
Frederick Francis II
Name prefix
Grand Duke
Name suffix
Of Mecklenburg-
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Birth 1823 23 20
 

Australian History 1824 (Age 12 months)
 

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 2)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 5)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 6)
 

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 7)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 8)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 9)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 10)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 12)
 

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 13)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 15)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 16)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Death of a maternal grandfather 1840 (Age 17)
 

maternal grandfather - King Frederick William III … Of Prussia
Australian History 1840 (Age 17)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 18)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Death of a father 1842 (Age 19)
 

father - Paul Frederick … Grand Duke
Australian History 1842 (Age 19)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 20)
 

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 22)
 

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 27)
 

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 28)
 

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 30)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 31)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 32)
 

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 33)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 34)
 

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.
Australian History 1858 (Age 35)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

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 38)
 

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 39)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 40)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 44)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
MarriageMarie … Of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - View family
1868 (Age 45)
 

Australian History 1868 (Age 45)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 46)
 

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 49)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 50)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 52)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Birth of a son
#1		 19 April 1876 (Age 53)
 Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

son - Duke Henry … Of Mecklenburg
Australian History 1878 (Age 55)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 56)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 57)
 

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 59)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death 1883 (Age 60)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Paul Frederick … Grand Duke

Birth 1800  

Death 1842 (Age 42)  

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3 years
mother
Alexandrine …

Birth 1803 33 27  

Death 1892 (Age 89)  

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Marriage: 1822
1 year
#1 himself
Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg-

Birth 1823 23 20  

Death 1883 (Age 60)  

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Family with Marie … Of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - View family
himself
Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg-

Birth 1823 23 20  

Death 1883 (Age 60)  

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wife
Marie … Of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Death yes  

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Marriage: 1868
8 years
#1 son
Duke Henry … Of Mecklenburg

Birth 19 April 1876 53  Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Death 3 July 1934 (Age 58)  The Hague, Netherlands

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Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg- has 10 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (10)

Parents Emperor William I … Of Germany + Augusta … Of Saxe-Weimar
1 Louise … 1828–1923
2 Frederick III … German Emperor 1831–1888
Parents Nicholas I Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia
1 Alexander II Nicholoevich Romanov Tsar Of Russia 1818–1881
2 Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia 1827–1892
3 Nicholas Romanov 1831–1891
4 Michael Romanov 1832–1909
Parents Prince Frederik … Of Netherlands + Louisa … Of Prussia
1 Louise … 1828–1871
2 Frederick … 1833–1834
3 William … 1836–1846
4 Marie … 1841–1910

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Last change 5 October 1999
 
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