Catherine McGaw VernonAge: 751873–1949
- Name
- Catherine McGaw Vernon
- Given names
- Catherine McGaw
- Surname
- Vernon
| Birth | 24 March 1873 38 38 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | July 1874 (Age 15 months) Creetown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
paternal grandmother -
Jean Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 21 months) 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 4) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 20 March 1879 (Age 5) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
paternal grandfather -
Samuel Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 5) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 6) 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 brother | James Vernon - View family 24 February 1882 (Age 8) Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
elder brother -
James Vernon
sister-in-law -
Margaret Mc Dowall
|
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 8) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a brother | William Carson Vernon - View family 18 October 1883 (Age 10) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
elder brother -
William Carson Vernon
sister-in-law -
Maggie Coltart Naylor
|
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 9) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a sister | 22 April 1885 (Age 12) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Elizabeth Jane Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 13) 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 15) 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 16) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 17) 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 18) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 19) 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 20) 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. |
| Death of a father | 17 March 1895 (Age 21) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
father -
James Vernon
|
| Marriage | Robert Brown - View family 12 July 1895 (Age 22) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 21) 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 |
| Birth of a son #1 | about 1896 (Age 22) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
son -
Alexander Brown
|
| Birth of a son #2 | about 1896 (Age 22) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
son -
Nicolas Brown
|
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 22) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | about 1897 (Age 23) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
daughter -
Mary Brown
|
| Death of a brother | 18 February 1897 (Age 23) London, England
elder brother -
Alexander Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 son #4 | about 1899 (Age 25) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
son -
James Brown
|
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 daughter #5 | about 1901 (Age 27) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
daughter -
Catherine Brown
|
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 32) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 34) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Death of a mother | 1909 (Age 35) Lancashire, England
mother -
Elizabeth Carson
|
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 35) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 36) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 39) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 daughter #6 | 1917 (Age 43) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
daughter -
Maggie Jane Brown
|
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a brother | 27 February 1921 (Age 47) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
elder brother -
James Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 47) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 48) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 49) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 52) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 53) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 56) 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 57) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 58) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 59) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 62) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 63) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 64) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 65) 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 66) 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 67) 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 68) 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. |
| Death of a brother | 21 March 1943 (Age 69) Milford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA
elder brother -
John Stewart Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 69) 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. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 70) 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 71) 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 72) 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 74) 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 75) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
James Vernon
Birth 17 May 1834 31 30 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 17 March 1895 (Age 60) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
| mother |
Elizabeth Carson
Birth 17 May 1834 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1909 (Age 74) Lancashire, England |
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Marriage: 26 October 1857 — Kirkmabreck, Scotland |
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| #1 elder brother |
James Vernon
Birth 26 October 1857 23 23 Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 27 February 1921 (Age 63) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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13 months #2 elder sister |
Elizabeth Jane Vernon
Birth 28 November 1858 24 24 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 22 April 1885 (Age 26) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
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16 months #3 elder brother |
Birth 31 March 1860 25 25 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 21 March 1943 (Age 82) Milford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA |
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21 months #4 elder brother |
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2 years #5 elder brother |
Alexander Vernon
Birth 22 January 1864 29 29 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 18 February 1897 (Age 33) London, England |
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2 years #6 elder brother |
Peter Carson Vernon
Birth 24 March 1866 31 31 Creetown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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23 months #7 elder brother |
Agnes Lindsay Vernon
Birth 23 February 1868 33 33 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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3 years #8 elder sister |
Margaret Carson Vernon
Birth 22 December 1870 36 36 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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2 years #9 herself |
Catherine McGaw Vernon
Birth 24 March 1873 38 38 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1949 (Age 75) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Family with Robert Brown - View family |
| husband |
Robert Brown
Birth 1867 |
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6 years herself |
Catherine McGaw Vernon
Birth 24 March 1873 38 38 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1949 (Age 75) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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Marriage: 12 July 1895 — Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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6 months #1 son |
Alexander Brown
Birth about 1896 29 22 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| #2 son |
Nicolas Brown
Birth about 1896 29 22 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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1 year #3 daughter |
Mary Brown
Birth about 1897 30 23 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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2 years #4 son |
James Brown
Birth about 1899 32 25 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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2 years #5 daughter |
Catherine Brown
Birth about 1901 34 27 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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16 years #6 daughter |
Maggie Jane Brown
Birth 1917 50 43 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1980 (Age 63) Edinburgh, Scotland |
Catherine McGaw Vernon has 2 first cousins recorded
Father's family (2)
Parents John Vernon + Elizabeth Dargavel
Mother's family (0)
| Note | per the 1881 Census, Catherine is not with her sibblings. She would have been 8 yrs old. She may have been away with the parents or she may have been deceased. However there is a Catherine Gaw , age 8 living with her Grandparents William and Elizabeth Carson in Kirkmabreck. Per the Wigtown Free Press, Catherine Gaw Vernon married Robert Brown at Creetown July 18 1895 |
| Australian History | Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. |
| Australian History | First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. |
| Australian History | First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway |
| Australian History | 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 | The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. |
| Australian History | The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 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 | 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 | The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. |
| Australian History | The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. |
| Australian History | The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. |
| Australian History | Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. |
| Australian History | (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. |
| Australian History | A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital |
| Australian History | Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country |
| Australian History | The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | The Royal Australian Navy is founded |
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 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 | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Australian History | 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 | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 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 | Western Australia celebrates its centenary |
| Australian History | Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings |
| Australian History | Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |
| Australian History | Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese |
| Australian History | Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. |
| Australian History | Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. |
| Australian History | the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. |
| Australian History | Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme |
| Australian History | Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Australian History | Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins |