Thomas McCaig 1877

Thomas McCaigAge: 841877–1962

Name: Thomas McCaig

Given names: Thomas

Surname: McCaig

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Birth	22 May 1877 33 26 Currarie, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland
Birth of a brother	16 June 1878 (Age 12 months) Currarie, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Alexander McCaig
Australian History	1878 (Age 7 months) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 (Age 19 months) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Birth of a brother	13 July 1880 (Age 3) Craigman, New Cumncock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Hugh Dunbar McCaig
Australian History	1880 (Age 2) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Census	4 April 1881 (Age 3) Old Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son 4 Bn Ballantrae AYR SCT
Australian History	1882 (Age 4) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 5) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a sister	5 January 1884 (Age 6) Old Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig
Australian History	1887 (Age 9) 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.
Birth of a brother	11 October 1889 (Age 12) Bishopton, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - George McCaig
Australian History	1889 (Age 11) 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 12) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census	5 April 1891 (Age 13) Bishopton Farmhouse, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: Son, 14, scholar bn Ballantrae AYR
Australian History	1891 (Age 13) 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 14) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 15) 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 16) 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 17) 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 sister	26 October 1896 (Age 19) Low Ersock?, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger sister - Christina McCaig
Australian History	1896 (Age 18) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 22) 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
Census	31 March 1901 (Age 23) Low Balcray Farm, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: Son single 24 Farmers son bn Ballantrae AYR
Australian History	1901 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 28) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 30) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History	1909 (Age 31) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death of a mother	2 July 1910 (Age 33) Low Balcraig, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland mother - Jean McKerrow
Australian History	1910 (Age 32) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 35) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 43) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 44) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 45) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death of a father	16 March 1925 (Age 47) Low Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland father - William McCaig
Death of a brother	5 December 1926 (Age 49) Ayr County Hospital, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Hugh Dunbar McCaig
Australian History	1926 (Age 48) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Death of a brother	19 June 1927 (Age 50) Sanatorium, Durban, South Africa elder brother - Robert McCaig
Australian History	1927 (Age 49) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 50) 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 51) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 52) 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 53) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 54) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 (Age 55) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Death of a sister	16 March 1936 (Age 58) Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland elder sister - Jane McCaig
Australian History	1936 (Age 58) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 59) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 60) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 61) 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 62) 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 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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 66) 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 brother	17 June 1945 (Age 68) Burgess Outon, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - Alexander McCaig
Australian History	1945 (Age 67) 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 68) 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 70) 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.
Death of a brother	6 November 1949 (Age 72) Low Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - George McCaig
Australian History	1949 (Age 71) 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 72) 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
Australian History	1951 (Age 73) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	1952 (Age 74) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	1954 (Age 76) 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 77) 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 78) 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 79) 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 84) 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
Death	26 March 1962 (Age 84) Longforth, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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father	William McCaig Birth about 1844 44 42 March Farm?, Kirkinner, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 16 March 1925 (Age 81) Low Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
7 years mother	Jean McKerrow Birth 1851 Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 2 July 1910 (Age 59) Low Balcraig, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 23 July 1869 — New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
1 month #1 elder brother	Robert McCaig Birth 29 August 1869 25 18 Riggend, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 19 June 1927 (Age 57) Sanatorium, Durban, South Africa Loading...
5 years #2 elder sister	Jane McCaig Birth 20 July 1874 30 23 Currarie, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 16 March 1936 (Age 61) Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #3 himself	Thomas McCaig Birth 22 May 1877 33 26 Currarie, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 26 March 1962 (Age 84) Longforth, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
13 months #4 younger brother	Alexander McCaig Birth 16 June 1878 34 27 Currarie, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 17 June 1945 (Age 67) Burgess Outon, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #5 younger brother	Hugh Dunbar McCaig Birth 13 July 1880 36 29 Craigman, New Cumncock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 5 December 1926 (Age 46) Ayr County Hospital, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
4 years #6 younger sister	Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig Birth 5 January 1884 40 33 Old Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 12 October 1966 (Age 82) Low Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
6 years #7 younger brother	George McCaig Birth 11 October 1889 45 38 Bishopton, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 6 November 1949 (Age 60) Low Balcray, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
7 years #8 younger sister	Christina McCaig Birth 26 October 1896 52 45 Low Ersock?, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 3 April 1976 (Age 79) Crichton Royal Hospital, Cree, Dumfries, Dfs, Scotland Loading...

Thomas McCaig has 35 first cousins recorded

Father's family (35)

Parents Ivie McCaig + Margaret McMillan

1 Wilhemina (Campbell) McCaig ?–1927

2 Mary Murdoch McCaig 1866–1910

3 Jane McCaig 1873–1939

4 Thomas McCaig 1875–1942

5 Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig 1878–1944

6 Ivie McCaig 1881–1950

Parents David Stevenson + Margaret McCaig

1 Wilhelmina Stevenson 1860–?

2 Christina Stevenson 1860–1926

3 David Stevenson 1861–1889

4 Agnes Jane Stevenson 1864–1893

5 Thomas Stevenson 1866–1871

Parents George Park + Margaret McCaig

1 William Park 1858–?

Parents Ivie Campbell + Christina McCaig

1 Ivie Campbell 1863–1920

2 Jeanie Richmond Campbell 1865–1938

3 Thomas McCaig Campbell 1867–1926

4 John Richmond Campbell 1869–1897

Parents John McCaig + Christina Morrison

1 Male McCaig 1858–1858

2 Thomas McCaig 1861–1925

3 Jane McCaig 1864–1935

4 James McCaig 1867–1934

5 Christina McCaig 1869–1922

6 Wilhelmina McCaig 1871–1943

7 Margaret McCaig 1874–1950

8 Isabella McCaig 1876–1914

9 Jessie Elizabeth McCaig 1879–1966

10 John McCaig 1881–1940

11 Ivie McCaig 1887–1926

Parents Edward Irvin McCaig + Marion Allan

1 Thomas Edward McCaig 1876–?

Parents Thomas McCaig + Mary Fisher

1 Thomas William McCaig 1866–1950

2 Janet Bailie McCaig 1868–?

3 Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig 1870–1871

4 … McCaig 1873–?

5 William McCaig 1875–?

6 Mary Fisher McCaig 1877–?

7 John Thomas McCaig 1880–?

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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.
Census	Son 4 Bn Ballantrae AYR SCT
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.
Census	Son, 14, scholar bn Ballantrae AYR
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.
Census	Son single 24 Farmers son bn Ballantrae AYR
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
Australian History	1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Australian History	Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	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	Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Australian History	Television in Australia is launched.
Australian History	The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Australian History	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.