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Alexander Fisher1839–?

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Alexander Fisher
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Alexander
Surname
Fisher
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Birth 1839 34 30
 Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Australian History 1839
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Birth of a brother about 1841 (Age 2)
 Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - James Fisher
Australian History 1841 (Age 2)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Birth of a sister about 1842 (Age 3)
 Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Elizabeth Fisher
Australian History 1842 (Age 3)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 4)
 

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).
Birth of a brother about 1845 (Age 6)
 Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - Ivie Fisher
Australian History 1845 (Age 6)
 

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.
Birth of a brother about 1847 (Age 8)
 Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - John Fisher
Death of a mother 3 May 1849 (Age 10)
 Barhaskin, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

mother - Jane McMillan
Australian History 1850 (Age 11)
 

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.
Census 30 March 1851 (Age 12)
 Barhasken, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: Son 12 scholar bn Minnigaff KKD
Australian History 1851 (Age 12)
 

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 fatherIvie Fisher - View family
1852 (estimated) (Age 13)
 Poss Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

father - Ivie Fisher
step-mother - Grace McMillan
Birth of a half-sister about 1853 (Age 14)
 Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

half-sister - Grace Fisher
Australian History 1853 (Age 14)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 15)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 16)
 

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 17)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 18)
 

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.
Birth of a half-brother 26 December 1858 (Age 19)
 Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

half-brother - Thomas Fisher
Australian History 1858 (Age 19)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Birth of a half-sister about 1859 (Age 20)
 Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

half-sister - Margaret Fisher
Australian History 1859 (Age 20)
 

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 21)
 

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 22)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 24)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Death of a paternal grandfather 8 August 1866 (Age 27)
 Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

paternal grandfather - William Fisher
Australian History 1867 (Age 28)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 29)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 30)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Marriage of a brotherWilliam Fisher - View family
6 March 1872 (Age 33)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder brother - William Fisher
sister-in-law - Jane Scott Campbell
Australian History 1872 (Age 33)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Death of a paternal grandmother 21 July 1873 (Age 34)
 Craignarget, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

paternal grandmother - Margaret Campbell
Australian History 1873 (Age 34)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Death of a father 3 January 1874 (Age 35)
 Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

father - Ivie Fisher
Australian History 1875 (Age 36)
 

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 39)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 40)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 41)
 

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 42)
 

Death of a half-sister 5 May 1881 (Age 42)
 Barhaskin, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

half-sister - Grace Fisher
Australian History 1882 (Age 43)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 44)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 48)
 

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 50)
 

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 51)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 52)
 

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 53)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 54)
 

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 55)
 

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 56)
 

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 57)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 58)
 

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 59)
 

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 60)
 

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 61)
 

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 62)
 

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 63)
 

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 64)
 

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 65)
 

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 67)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 69)
 

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 70)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 71)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

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 74)
 

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 74)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Death of a brother 21 October 1914 (Age 75)
 Nursing Home, 121 Hill Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

younger brother - Ivie Fisher
Australian History 1914 (Age 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 77)
 

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
Death of a brother 8 January 1917 (Age 78)
 Vicarhill, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder brother - William Fisher
Australian History 1917 (Age 78)
 

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 79)
 

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 80)
 

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 81)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 82)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 83)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 84)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death of a brother 28 November 1925 (Age 86)
 Glenview, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - James Fisher
Australian History 1926 (Age 87)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 88)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Death of a brother 14 January 1928 (Age 89)
 Barnsallie, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - John Fisher
Australian History 1928 (Age 89)
 

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 90)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 91)
 

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 92)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 93)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a sister 25 March 1933 (Age 94)
 Gleniron Farmhouse, New Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Elizabeth Fisher
Australian History 1933 (Age 94)
 

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 97)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 98)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 99)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939 (Age 100)
 

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 101)
 

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 102)
 

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 103)
 

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 104)
 

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.
Deathyes
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Ivie Fisher

Birth about 1805 21 21  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 3 January 1874 (Age 69)  Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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mother
Jane McMillan

Birth about 1809  

Death 3 May 1849 (Age 40)  Barhaskin, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: 19 March 1836 — Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
9 months
#1 elder brother
William Fisher

Birth about 1837 32 28  Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death 8 January 1917 (Age 80)  Vicarhill, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#2 himself
Alexander Fisher

Birth 1839 34 30  Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#3 younger brother
James Fisher

Birth about 1841 36 32  Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 28 November 1925 (Age 84)  Glenview, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#4 younger sister
Elizabeth Fisher

Birth about 1842 37 33  Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 25 March 1933 (Age 91)  Gleniron Farmhouse, New Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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3 years
#5 younger brother
Ivie Fisher

Birth about 1845 40 36  Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 21 October 1914 (Age 69)  Nursing Home, 121 Hill Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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2 years
#6 younger brother
John Fisher

Birth about 1847 42 38  Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 14 January 1928 (Age 81)  Barnsallie, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Father’s family with Grace McMillan - View family
father
Ivie Fisher

Birth about 1805 21 21  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 3 January 1874 (Age 69)  Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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20 years
step-mother
Grace McMillan

Birth about 1825  Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 6 December 1905 (Age 80)  Ashfield Cottage, Macdougall St, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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Marriage: 1852 (estimated) — Poss Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland
1 year
#1 half-sister
Grace Fisher

Birth about 1853 48 28  Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 5 May 1881 (Age 28)  Barhaskin, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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6 years
#2 half-brother
Thomas Fisher

Birth 26 December 1858 53 33  Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#3 half-sister
Margaret Fisher

Birth about 1859 54 34  Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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Alexander Fisher has 15 first cousins recorded

Father's family (12)

Parents James Fisher + Janet Baillie
1 William Fisher ?–1926
2 Mary Fisher 1842–1920
Parents James Templeton + Margaret Fisher
1 Margaret Templeton 1838–?
2 David Templeton 1839–?
3 Isabella Templeton 1841–?
4 Mary Templeton 1843–?
5 William Templeton 1845–?
6 Jane Templeton 1846–?
7 John Templeton 1850–?
Parents John Macmillan + Jane Fisher
1 Mary Macmillan 1860–?
2 James Macmillan 1863–?
3 Maggie Macmillan 1866–?

Mother's family (3)

Parents Ivie Fisher + Grace McMillan
1 Grace Fisher 1853–1881
2 Thomas Fisher 1858–?
3 Margaret Fisher 1859–?
 
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.

Census
Son 12 scholar bn Minnigaff KKD

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.

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.


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Internal reference I8390
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6315
 
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