Harold …Age: 731876–1949
- Name
- Harold …
- Given names
- Harold
| Birth | 1876 32 24 |
| Birth of a sister | 1878 (Age 2)
younger sister -
Ingeborg … Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 2) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 3) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Birth of a sister | 1880 (Age 4)
younger sister -
Thyra …
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 4) 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 6) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 7) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Birth of a brother | 1887 (Age 11)
younger brother -
Gustav …
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 11) 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. |
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 13) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Birth of a sister | 1890 (Age 14)
younger sister -
Dagmar …
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 14) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 15) 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 |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 16) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 17) 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 18) 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 19) 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 |
| Marriage of a brother | Charles Haakon VII … King Of Norway - View family 22 July 1896 (Age 20) Buckingham, Palace, London, England
elder brother -
Charles Haakon VII … King Of Norway
sister-in-law -
Princess Maude Charlotte Mary …
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| Marriage of a sister | Louise … - View family 1896 (Age 20)
brother-in-law -
Prince Frederick … Of Schaumburg -Lippe
elder sister -
Louise …
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 20) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Marriage of a sister | Ingeborg … Of Denmark - View family 1897 (Age 21)
brother-in-law -
Prince Charles … Of Sweden
younger sister -
Ingeborg … Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 21) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Christian X … King Of Denmark - View family 1898 (Age 22)
elder brother -
Christian X … King Of Denmark
sister-in-law -
Alexandrine … Of Mecklenburg- Schwerin
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| Death of a paternal grandmother | 29 September 1898 (Age 22) Bernstorff, Germany
paternal grandmother -
Princess Louise … Of Hesse-Cassel
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 22) 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 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 27) 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 28) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Death of a sister | 1906 (Age 30)
elder sister -
Louise …
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| Death of a paternal grandfather | 29 January 1906 (Age 30) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
paternal grandfather -
Christian IX … King Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 30) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 32) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Marriage | Helene … Of Schleswig- Holstein - View family 1909 (Age 33) |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 33) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1910 (Age 34)
daughter -
Feodora …
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| Australian History | 1910 (Age 34) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 35) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1912 (Age 36)
daughter -
Caroline Mathilde …
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| Death of a father | 14 May 1912 (Age 36) Hamburg, Germany
father -
Frederick VIII … King Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 36) 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 37) 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 37) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1914 (Age 38)
daughter -
Alexandrine Louise …
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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. |
| Birth of a son #4 | 1919 (Age 43)
son -
Gorm …
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| Australian History | 1919 (Age 43) 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. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 44) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 45) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Marriage of a sister | Dagmar … - View family 1922 (Age 46)
brother-in-law -
Jorgen Castenskiold
younger sister -
Dagmar …
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| Australian History | 1922 (Age 46) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Birth of a son #5 | 1923 (Age 47) |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 47) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a mother | 20 March 1926 (Age 50) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
mother -
Louise … Of Sweden
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 50) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 51) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 52) 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 53) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 56) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Marriage of a daughter | Caroline Mathilde … - View family 1933 (Age 57)
nephew -
Knud … Her. Prince
daughter -
Caroline Mathilde …
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 57) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1935 (Age 59)
granddaughter -
Elizabeth …
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 60) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 61) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 62) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 63) 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 |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 1940 (Age 64)
grandson -
Ingolf …
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| Australian History | 1940 (Age 64) 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 65) 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | 1942 (Age 66)
grandson -
Christian …
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| Australian History | 1942 (Age 66) 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 67) 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. |
| Death of a brother | 1944 (Age 68)
younger brother -
Gustav …
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| Australian History | 1944 (Age 68) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 1945 (Age 69)
younger sister -
Thyra …
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| Australian History | 1945 (Age 69) 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 70) 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. |
| Death of a brother | 20 April 1947 (Age 71) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
elder brother -
Christian X … King Of Denmark
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| Marriage of a son | Count Oluf … Of Rosenborg - View family 1948 (Age 72)
daughter-in-law -
Helen Dorrit
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| Australian History | 1948 (Age 72) 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 (on the date of death) 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. |
| Death | 1949 (Age 73) |
| Family with parents - View family |
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Frederick VIII … King Of Denmark
Birth 3 June 1843 25 25 Copenhagen, Denmark Death 14 May 1912 (Age 68) Hamburg, Germany Loading...
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8 years mother |
Louise … Of Sweden
Birth 31 October 1851 25 23 Stockholm, Sweden Death 20 March 1926 (Age 74) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Loading...
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Christian X … King Of Denmark
Birth 26 September 1870 27 18 Charlottenlund, Nr: Copenhagen, Denmark Death 20 April 1947 (Age 76) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Loading...
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15 months #2 elder brother |
Charles Haakon VII … King Of Norway
Birth 1872 28 20 Charlottenlund, Denmark Death 1957 (Age 85) Loading...
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3 years #3 elder sister |
Louise …
Birth 1875 31 23 Death 1906 (Age 31) Loading...
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1 year #4 himself |
Harold …
Birth 1876 32 24 Death 1949 (Age 73) Loading...
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2 years #5 younger sister |
Ingeborg … Of Denmark
Birth 1878 34 26 Death 1958 (Age 80) Loading...
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Thyra …
Birth 1880 36 28 Death 1945 (Age 65) Loading...
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7 years #7 younger brother |
Gustav …
Birth 1887 43 35 Death 1944 (Age 57) Loading...
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3 years #8 younger sister |
Dagmar …
Birth 1890 46 38 Death 1961 (Age 71) Loading...
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| Family with Helene … Of Schleswig- Holstein - View family |
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Harold …
Birth 1876 32 24 Death 1949 (Age 73) Loading...
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12 years wife |
Helene … Of Schleswig- Holstein
Birth 1888 Death 1962 (Age 74) Loading...
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Marriage: 1909 |
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1 year #1 daughter |
Feodora …
Birth 1910 34 22 Death 1975 (Age 65) Loading...
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2 years #2 daughter |
Caroline Mathilde …
Birth 1912 36 24 Death yes Loading...
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2 years #3 daughter |
Alexandrine Louise …
Birth 1914 38 26 Death 1962 (Age 48) Loading...
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5 years #4 son |
Gorm …
Birth 1919 43 31 Death yes Loading...
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4 years #5 son |
Count Oluf … Of Rosenborg
Birth 1923 47 35 Death yes Loading...
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Harold … has 26 first cousins recorded
Father's family (26)
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
Parents George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg + Princess Olga Constantinovna …
Parents Alexander III Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Tsarina Dagmar "Marie" … Of Denmark
Parents Duke Ernest Augustus Hanover Of Cumberland + Princess Thyra … Of Denmark
Mother's family (0)
Extra information
Internal reference
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