Thomas Campbell1823–?
- Name
- Thomas Campbell
- Given names
- Thomas
- Surname
- Campbell
Birth | 21 July 1823 23 21 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Australian History | 1824 (Age 5 months) Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane. Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed. Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia' Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River |
Australian History | 1825 (Age 17 months) Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
Australian History | 1828 (Age 4) Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
Birth of a sister | about 1829 (Age 5)
younger sister -
Janet Campbell
|
Australian History | 1829 (Age 5) Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain. |
Australian History | 1830 (Age 6) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
Death of a mother | 27 October 1831 (Age 8) New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
mother -
Catherine McKnight
|
Australian History | 1831 (Age 7) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
Australian History | 1832 (Age 8) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1833 (Age 9) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
Australian History | 1835 (Age 11) 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. |
Death of a paternal grandfather | about 1836 (Age 12) Blackfarthing, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
paternal grandfather -
Thomas Campbell
|
Australian History | 1836 (Age 12) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1838 (Age 14) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
Australian History | 1839 (Age 15) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
Australian History | 1840 (Age 16) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
Australian History | 1841 (Age 17) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
Australian History | 1842 (Age 18) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
Australian History | 1843 (Age 19) 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 21) 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 26) 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 27) 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 |
Marriage of a sister | Janet Campbell - View family about 1852 (Age 28)
brother-in-law -
William Logan
younger sister -
Janet Campbell
|
Australian History | 1853 (Age 29) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Australian History | 1854 (Age 30) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
Australian History | 1855 (Age 31) 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 32) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
Australian History | 1857 (Age 33) 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. |
Death of a sister | 2 July 1858 (Age 34) Castle, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
younger sister -
Janet Campbell
|
Australian History | 1858 (Age 34) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
Australian History | 1859 (Age 35) Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives. Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1860 (Age 36) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1861 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1863 (Age 39) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
Australian History | 1867 (Age 43) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
Australian History | 1868 (Age 44) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 (Age 45) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Australian History | 1872 (Age 48) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Australian History | 1873 (Age 49) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Australian History | 1875 (Age 51) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
Death of a father | 21 July 1878 (Age 55) Greenhead, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
father -
John Campbell
|
Australian History | 1878 (Age 54) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1879 (Age 55) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 (Age 56) 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 57) Note: Not on Lowlands disc |
Australian History | 1882 (Age 58) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 59) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Australian History | 1887 (Age 63) 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 65) 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 66) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Australian History | 1891 (Age 67) 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 68) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 (Age 69) 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 70) 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 71) 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 |
Australian History | 1896 (Age 72) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 73) 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 74) 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 75) 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 76) 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 77) 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 78) 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 79) 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 80) 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 82) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Australian History | 1908 (Age 84) 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 85) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 86) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Australian History | 1911 (Age 87) 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 88) 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 89) 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 89) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 90) 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 91) 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 92) 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 93) 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 94) 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 95) 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 96) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 97) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 98) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 99) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Australian History | 1926 (Age 102) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
Australian History | 1927 (Age 103) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
Death | yes |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
John Campbell
Birth 18 March 1800 35 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 21 July 1878 (Age 78) Greenhead, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
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21 months mother |
Catherine McKnight
Birth about 1802 Death 27 October 1831 (Age 29) New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
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Marriage: yes |
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#1 himself |
Thomas Campbell
Birth 21 July 1823 23 21 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
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5 years #2 younger sister |
Janet Campbell
Birth about 1829 28 27 Death 2 July 1858 (Age 29) Castle, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
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Thomas Campbell has 10 first cousins recorded
Father's family (10)
Parents … Riddle + Elizabeth Campbell
Parents Hugh Campbell + Margaret Wood
Parents Ivie Campbell + Jane Weir
Parents George Campbell + Agnes Cook
Mother's family (0)
Australian History | A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane. |
Australian History | New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
Australian History | Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
Australian History | The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain. |
Australian History | Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
Australian History | Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
Australian History | Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
Australian History | The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
Australian History | John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne. |
Australian History | Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
Australian History | First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
Australian History | Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
Australian History | Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
Australian History | New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
Australian History | Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
Australian History | 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 | The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost. |
Australian History | Western Australia becomes a penal colony. |
Australian History | Victoria separates from New South Wales. |
Australian History | Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Australian History | The Eureka Stockade |
Australian History | The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases. |
Australian History | Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
Australian History | 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. |
Australian History | Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. |
Australian History | SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives. |
Australian History | John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
Australian History | The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. |
Australian History | Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
Australian History | South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
Australian History | Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. |
Australian History | The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Australian History | Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
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. |
Census | Not on Lowlands disc |
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 |
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