Helen Campbell 1835

Helen Campbell1835–?

Name: Helen Campbell

Given names: Helen

Surname: Campbell

Ellen Campbell

Name: Ellen Campbell

Given names: Ellen

Surname: Campbell

Helen Scott

Name: Helen Scott

Given names: Helen

Surname: Scott

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Baptism	7 August 1835 41 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: IGI
Australian History	1835 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 Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History	1838 Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Baptism of a brother	5 June 1838 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Andrew Campbell
Australian History	1839 Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	1840 Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Baptism of a sister	10 September 1840 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Euphemia Duncan Campbell
Australian History	1841 Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History	1842 Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History	1843 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).
Death of a maternal grandmother	4 August 1844 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland maternal grandmother - Margaret Dunbar
Australian History	1845 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.
Marriage of a sister	Isabella Agnes Campbell - View family 8 December 1847 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland brother-in-law - William Duncan elder sister - Isabella Agnes Campbell
Death of a father	6 April 1850 Rankinstone, Ayrshire, Scotland father - Andrew Campbell
Marriage of a sister	Margaret Dunbar Campbell - View family 10 June 1850 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland brother-in-law - Andrew Muir elder sister - Margaret Dunbar Campbell
Australian History	1850 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 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 Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	1854 Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	1855 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 Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History	1857 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	3 January 1858 Knockeen, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Euphemia Duncan Campbell
Australian History	1858 Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Death of a sister	27 October 1859 Harwood, Teviothead, Rox, Scotland elder sister - Janet Campbell
Australian History	1859 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 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 Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Marriage	Robert Scott - View family 25 February 1862 Knocheen, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Birth of a daughter #1	11 July 1862 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Margaret Scott
Australian History	1862 Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Birth of a daughter #2	30 August 1863 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Jessie Campbell Scott
Marriage of a brother	William Richmond Campbell - View family 3 September 1863 Black Claughie, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland elder brother - William Richmond Campbell sister-in-law - Anne McFadzean
Australian History	1863 Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Marriage of a brother	John Campbell - View family 18 January 1865 Bennan, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland elder brother - John Campbell sister-in-law - Margaret McCreath
Birth of a son #3	26 January 1865 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland son - Thomas Scott
Birth of a daughter #4	7 January 1866 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Isabella Duncan Scott
Birth of a daughter #5	12 February 1867 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Jean Bruce Scott
Australian History	1867 Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a son #6	16 May 1868 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland son - Andrew Campbell Scott
Australian History	1868 Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Birth of a daughter #7	7 June 1869 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Elizabeth Forbes Scott
Australian History	1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a daughter #8	4 September 1870 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Ellen Purvis Scott
Birth of a daughter #9	19 November 1871 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Robina Inglis Scott
Australian History	1872 Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a son #10	14 March 1873 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland son - John Scott
Australian History	1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History	1875 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 mother	9 January 1876 Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland mother - Janet Campbell
Death of a husband	3 December 1877 South Balloch, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland husband - Robert Scott
Australian History	1878 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 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 South Balloch, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Head farmer of 980 acres 70 arable, widow 45 bn Coylton
Death of a brother	20 July 1882 Knockeen, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland elder brother - John Campbell
Australian History	1882 Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History	1887 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	2 January 1888 Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland elder brother - William Richmond Campbell
Death of a sister	6 February 1889 16 Monteith Row, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland elder sister - Margaret Dunbar Campbell
Death of a sister	27 September 1889 Minnigaff Village, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland elder sister - Jane Campbell
Australian History	1889 Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History	1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census	5 April 1891
Australian History	1891 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 Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 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 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 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 Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 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 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 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 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
Australian History	1901 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 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
Death of a brother	1903 Lin, England younger brother - Andrew Campbell
Australian History	1903 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 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 Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History	1909 Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 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 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 Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History	1913 Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 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 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 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 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 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 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 Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	1926 Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 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 Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 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 Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 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 Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 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
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father	Andrew Campbell Birth Rankinston, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 6 April 1850 Rankinstone, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
mother	Janet Campbell Birth about 1794 39 33 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 9 January 1876 (Age 82) Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 14 June 1820 — Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland
9 months #1 elder sister	Margaret Dunbar Campbell Baptism 17 March 1821 27 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 6 February 1889 16 Monteith Row, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Loading...
17 months #2 elder sister	Jane Campbell Baptism 24 August 1822 28 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 27 September 1889 Minnigaff Village, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
16 months #3 elder brother	John Campbell Birth 27 December 1823 29 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 20 July 1882 (Age 58) Knockeen, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #4 elder brother	Ivie Campbell Baptism 7 February 1826 32 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
22 months #5 elder sister	Isabella Agnes Campbell Baptism 11 December 1827 33 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
3 years #6 elder sister	Janet Campbell Baptism 14 June 1830 36 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 27 October 1859 Harwood, Teviothead, Rox, Scotland Loading...
2 years #7 elder brother	William Richmond Campbell Baptism 27 August 1832 38 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 2 January 1888 Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #8 herself	Helen Campbell Baptism 7 August 1835 41 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
3 years #9 younger brother	Andrew Campbell Baptism 5 June 1838 44 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1903 Lin, England Loading...
2 years #10 younger sister	Euphemia Duncan Campbell Baptism 10 September 1840 46 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 3 January 1858 Knockeen, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...

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husband	Robert Scott Birth about 1831 Death 3 December 1877 (Age 46) South Balloch, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
5 years herself	Helen Campbell Baptism 7 August 1835 41 Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
	Marriage: 25 February 1862 — Knocheen, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
4 months #1 daughter	Margaret Scott Birth 11 July 1862 31 26 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
14 months #2 daughter	Jessie Campbell Scott Birth 30 August 1863 32 28 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
17 months #3 son	Thomas Scott Birth 26 January 1865 34 29 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
11 months #4 daughter	Isabella Duncan Scott Birth 7 January 1866 35 30 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
13 months #5 daughter	Jean Bruce Scott Birth 12 February 1867 36 31 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
15 months #6 son	Andrew Campbell Scott Birth 16 May 1868 37 32 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
13 months #7 daughter	Elizabeth Forbes Scott Birth 7 June 1869 38 33 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
15 months #8 daughter	Ellen Purvis Scott Birth 4 September 1870 39 35 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
14 months #9 daughter	Robina Inglis Scott Birth 19 November 1871 40 36 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
16 months #10 son	John Scott Birth 14 March 1873 42 37 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...

Helen Campbell has 48 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (48)

Parents William Graham + Isabel Campbell

1 Ivie (Campbell) Graham 1813–1891

2 Margaret Graham 1813–1873

3 Jean Graham 1816–1895

4 Isabella Graham 1822–1895

5 Elizabeth Graham 1823–1859

6 James Graham 1825–1905

7 Janet Graham 1827–1849

8 Douglas Wills Graham 1829–1906

9 William Graham 1832–1897

10 David Graham 1839–?

Parents William Brown + Jean Campbell

1 William Brown 1814–1881

2 Margaret Brown 1813–1875

3 Janet Brown 1819–1894

4 Mary Brown 1823–?

5 Ivie Brown 1821–1881

6 George Brown 1825–1862

7 Elizabeth Brown 1827–1908

8 Jane Brown 1829–1899

9 Hugh Brown 1833–1915

Parents Alexander Rowan + Tomina Campbell

1 Margaret Rowan 1816–?

2 Ivie Rowan 1817–1847

3 Georgina Rowan 1820–1900

4 Mary Rowan 1823–?

5 Andrew Rowan 1825–1889

6 Thomas Rowan 1827–?

7 John Rowan 1829–1887

8 Elizabeth Rowan 1831–1899

Parents David Ferguson + Helen Campbell

1 David Ferguson 1821–?

2 Jane Ferguson 1826–1862

3 Margaret Ferguson 1823–1856

4 Helen Ferguson 1827–?

5 Agnes Ferguson 1828–1923

6 Jessie Campbell Ferguson 1831–1902

7 Ivie Ferguson 1833–1894

8 Elizabeth Ferguson 1838–?

9 William Ferguson 1841–1898

Parents Ivie Campbell + Jean Richmond

1 Ivie Campbell 1833–1910

Parents Thomas McCaig + Wilhemina Campbell

1 Hugh Dunbar McCaig 1826–1883

2 Robert McCaig 1826–1912

3 Ivie McCaig 1829–1890

4 Margaret McCaig 1832–1900

5 Christina McCaig 1832–1892

6 John McCaig 1834–1914

7 George McCaig 1836–1897

8 Edward Irvin McCaig 1838–1918

9 Thomas McCaig 1840–1915

10 William McCaig 1844–1925

11 Jane Richmond McCaig 1848–1868

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Baptism	IGI
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	Head farmer of 980 acres 70 arable, widow 45 bn Coylton
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