William Fisher 1813

William Fisher1813–?

Name: William Fisher

Given names: William

Surname: Fisher

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Birth	about 1813 29 29 Poss Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
Birth of a sister	22 May 1817 (Age 4) Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Mary Fisher
Australian History	1817 (Age 4) Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982). Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History	1818 (Age 5) Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Birth of a brother	about 1819 (Age 6) Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland younger brother - George Fisher
Birth of a brother	about 1820 (Age 7) Prob Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland younger brother - John Fisher
Australian History	1824 (Age 11) 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 12) Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Birth of a brother	1826 (Age 13) Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland younger brother - Thomas Fisher
Birth of a sister	about 1827 (Age 14) Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland younger sister - Jane Fisher
Birth of a sister	11 December 1827 (Age 14) Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland younger sister - Agnes Fisher
Australian History	1828 (Age 15) Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History	1829 (Age 16) 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 17) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Death of a maternal grandfather	28 July 1831 (Age 18) Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland maternal grandfather - Ivie Campbell
Australian History	1831 (Age 18) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History	1832 (Age 19) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History	1833 (Age 20) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History	1835 (Age 22) 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.
Marriage of a brother	Ivie Fisher - View family 19 March 1836 (Age 23) Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland elder brother - Ivie Fisher sister-in-law - Jane McMillan
Australian History	1836 (Age 23) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Marriage of a sister	Margaret Fisher - View family about 1837 (Age 24) Poss Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland brother-in-law - James Templeton elder sister - Margaret Fisher
Australian History	1838 (Age 25) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History	1839 (Age 26) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	1840 (Age 27) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History	1841 (Age 28) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Death of a brother	about 1842 (Age 29) Garrarie Farm, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - John Fisher
Australian History	1842 (Age 29) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History	1843 (Age 30) 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 32) 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 37) 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 38) Note: Not at Craignarget
Death of a brother	19 December 1851 (Age 38) Glasgow, Scotland elder brother - James Fisher
Australian History	1851 (Age 38) 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 brother	Ivie Fisher - View family 1852 (estimated) (Age 39) Poss Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland elder brother - Ivie Fisher sister-in-law - Grace McMillan
Australian History	1853 (Age 40) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	1854 (Age 41) Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	1855 (Age 42) 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 43) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History	1857 (Age 44) 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.
Australian History	1858 (Age 45) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History	1859 (Age 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 49) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History	1863 (Age 50) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Death of a sister	31 May 1865 (Age 52) Suie, Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland elder sister - Margaret Fisher
Death of a father	8 August 1866 (Age 53) Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland father - William Fisher
Australian History	1867 (Age 54) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History	1868 (Age 55) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History	1869 (Age 56) 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 59) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Death of a mother	21 July 1873 (Age 60) Craignarget, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland mother - Margaret Campbell
Australian History	1873 (Age 60) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Death of a brother	3 January 1874 (Age 61) Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland elder brother - Ivie Fisher
Australian History	1875 (Age 62) 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 65) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 (Age 66) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 67) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Australian History	1882 (Age 69) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 70) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History	1887 (Age 74) 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 76) 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 77) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History	1891 (Age 78) 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
Death of a sister	8 October 1892 (Age 79) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger sister - Agnes Fisher
Australian History	1892 (Age 79) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 80) 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 81) 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 82) 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
Death of a sister	5 July 1896 (Age 83) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger sister - Mary Fisher
Australian History	1896 (Age 83) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 84) 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 85) 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 86) 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.
Death of a brother	1 May 1900 (Age 87) Sea Bank, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - Thomas Fisher
Australian History	1900 (Age 87) 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 88) 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 89) 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 90) 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 91) 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 93) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 95) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Death of a brother	17 January 1909 (Age 96) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger brother - George Fisher
Australian History	1909 (Age 96) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 (Age 97) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 98) 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 99) 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 100) 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 100) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 101) 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 102) 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 103) 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 104) 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.
Death	yes

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father	William Fisher Birth 18 May 1783 Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 8 August 1866 (Age 83) Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
2 months mother	Margaret Campbell Birth 17 July 1783 28 29 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 21 July 1873 (Age 90) Craignarget, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: about 1803
2 years #1 elder brother	Ivie Fisher Birth about 1805 21 21 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 3 January 1874 (Age 69) Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #2 elder brother	James Fisher Birth about 1807 23 23 Poss New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 19 December 1851 (Age 44) Glasgow, Scotland Loading...
2 years #3 elder sister	Margaret Fisher Birth about 1809 25 25 Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 31 May 1865 (Age 56) Suie, Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
4 years #4 himself	William Fisher Birth about 1813 29 29 Poss Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
4 years #5 younger sister	Mary Fisher Birth 22 May 1817 34 33 Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 5 July 1896 (Age 79) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
19 months #6 younger brother	George Fisher Birth about 1819 35 35 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 17 January 1909 (Age 90) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
1 year #7 younger brother	John Fisher Birth about 1820 36 36 Prob Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death about 1842 (Age 22) Garrarie Farm, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
6 years #8 younger brother	Thomas Fisher Birth 1826 42 42 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 1 May 1900 (Age 74) Sea Bank, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
1 year #9 younger sister	Jane Fisher Birth about 1827 43 43 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death Glenhead, Scotland Loading...
11 months #10 younger sister	Agnes Fisher Birth 11 December 1827 44 44 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 8 October 1892 (Age 64) Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...

William Fisher has 19 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (19)

Parents George Campbell + Janet McDonald

1 Jean Campbell 1832–1865

2 Ivie Campbell 1833–1904

3 George Campbell 1835–1867

4 Angus Campbell 1837–1843

5 Margaret Campbell 1839–?

6 Janet Campbell 1841–1917

7 Angusina Campbell 1847–?

8 William Campbell 1849–1850

Parents William Campbell + Jean Scott

1 Ivie Campbell 1810–1880

2 David Campbell 1813–1880

3 Jane Campbell 1814–1897

4 George Campbell 1817–1866

5 William Campbell 1819–1893

6 Walter Scott Campbell 1821–1864

7 Agnes Campbell 1823–1895

8 John Campbell 1825–1900

9 Margaret Campbell 1829–1835

10 Elizabeth Campbell 1831–1924

11 Ebenezer Campbell 1833–1909

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Australian History	John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Australian History	Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
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.
Census	Not at Craignarget
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.