Alexandrine …Age: 891803–1892
- Name
- Alexandrine …
- Given names
- Alexandrine
| Birth | 1803 33 27 |
| Australian History | 1803 Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland') |
| Birth of a brother | 1804 (Age 12 months)
younger brother -
Ferdinand …
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| Australian History | 1804 (Age 12 months) Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen. Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 25 February 1805 (Age 2) Berlin, Germany
paternal grandmother -
Frederica … Of Hesse-Darmstadt
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| Death of a brother | 1806 (Age 3)
younger brother -
Ferdinand …
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| Birth of a sister | 1808 (Age 5)
younger sister -
Louisa … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1808 (Age 5) Note: The Rum Rebellion |
| Birth of a brother | 1809 (Age 6)
younger brother -
Prince Albert … Of Prussia
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| Death of a mother | 1810 (Age 7)
mother -
Louise … Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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| Marriage of a sister | Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia - View family 1817 (Age 14)
brother-in-law -
Nicholas I Romanov Tsar Of Russia
elder sister -
Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1817 (Age 14) Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982). Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland' |
| Australian History | 1818 (Age 15) Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
| Marriage | Paul Frederick … Grand Duke - View family 1822 (Age 19) |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1823 (Age 20) |
| Australian History | 1824 (Age 21) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Louisa … Of Prussia - View family 1825 (Age 22)
brother-in-law -
Prince Frederik … Of Netherlands
younger sister -
Louisa … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1825 (Age 22) Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1828 (Age 25) Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
| Australian History | 1829 (Age 26) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Prince Albert … Of Prussia - View family 1830 (Age 27)
younger brother -
Prince Albert … Of Prussia
sister-in-law -
Marianne … Of Netherlands
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| Australian History | 1830 (Age 27) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Australian History | 1831 (Age 28) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
| Australian History | 1832 (Age 29) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1833 (Age 30) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
| Australian History | 1835 (Age 32) 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 33) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1838 (Age 35) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | 1839 (Age 36) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Death of a father | 1840 (Age 37) |
| Australian History | 1840 (Age 37) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Australian History | 1841 (Age 38) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Death of a husband | 1842 (Age 39)
husband -
Paul Frederick … Grand Duke
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| Australian History | 1842 (Age 39) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1843 (Age 40) 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 42) 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 47) 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 48) 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 50) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Australian History | 1854 (Age 51) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 52) 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 53) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 56) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 1860 (Age 57)
elder sister -
Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1860 (Age 57) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Death of a brother | 2 January 1861 (Age 58)
elder brother -
Frederick William IV … King Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1861 (Age 58) 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 59) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 60) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 64) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Marriage of a son | Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg- - View family 1868 (Age 65)
daughter-in-law -
Marie … Of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 65) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 66) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Death of a sister | 1870 (Age 67)
younger sister -
Louisa … Of Prussia
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| Death of a brother | 1872 (Age 69)
younger brother -
Prince Albert … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 69) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 70) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 72) 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 grandson #1 | 19 April 1876 (Age 73) Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
grandson -
Duke Henry … Of Mecklenburg
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 75) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 76) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 77) 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 79) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a son | 1883 (Age 80) |
| Death of a brother | 1883 (Age 80)
elder brother -
Charles …
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| Australian History | 1883 (Age 80) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 84) 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. |
| Death of a brother | 9 March 1888 (Age 85) Berlin, Germany
elder brother -
Emperor William I … Of Germany
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 86) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 87) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 88) 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 (on the date of death) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Death | 1892 (Age 89) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
King Frederick William III … Of Prussia
Birth 1770 25 18 Potsdam, Germany Death 1840 (Age 70) Loading...
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6 years mother |
Louise … Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Birth 1776 Death 1810 (Age 34) Loading...
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 sister |
Daughter Stillborn …
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| #2 elder brother |
Frederick William IV … King Of Prussia
Birth 15 October 1795 25 19 Berlin, Germany Death 2 January 1861 (Age 65) Loading...
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17 months #3 elder brother |
Emperor William I … Of Germany
Birth 22 March 1797 27 21 Berlin, Germany Death 9 March 1888 (Age 90) Berlin, Germany Loading...
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9 months #4 elder sister |
Princess Charlotte … Of Prussia
Birth 1798 28 22 Death 1860 (Age 62) Loading...
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1 year #5 elder sister |
Frederica …
Birth 1799 29 23 Death 1800 (Age 12 months) Loading...
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2 years #6 elder brother |
Charles …
Birth 1801 31 25 Death 1883 (Age 82) Loading...
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2 years #7 herself |
Alexandrine …
Birth 1803 33 27 Death 1892 (Age 89) Loading...
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1 year #8 younger brother |
Ferdinand …
Birth 1804 34 28 Death 1806 (Age 2) Loading...
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4 years #9 younger sister |
Louisa … Of Prussia
Birth 1808 38 32 Death 1870 (Age 62) Loading...
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1 year #10 younger brother |
Prince Albert … Of Prussia
Birth 1809 39 33 Death 1872 (Age 63) Loading...
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| Father’s family with Auguste Von Harrach - View family |
| father |
King Frederick William III … Of Prussia
Birth 1770 25 18 Potsdam, Germany Death 1840 (Age 70) Loading...
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30 years step-mother |
Auguste Von Harrach
Birth 1800 Death 1873 (Age 73) Loading...
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Marriage: yes |
| Family with Paul Frederick … Grand Duke - View family |
| husband |
Paul Frederick … Grand Duke
Birth 1800 Death 1842 (Age 42) Loading...
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3 years herself |
Alexandrine …
Birth 1803 33 27 Death 1892 (Age 89) Loading...
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Marriage: 1822 |
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1 year #1 son |
Grand Duke Frederick Francis II … Of Mecklenburg-
Birth 1823 23 20 Death 1883 (Age 60) Loading...
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Alexandrine … has 4 first cousins recorded
Father's family (4)
Parents King William I … Of Netherlands + Wilhelmina …
Mother's family (0)
Extra information
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