Louise Wiebchge RathjenAge: 691859–1929
- Name
- Louise Wiebchge Rathjen
- Given names
- Louise Wiebchge
- Surname
- Rathjen
| Birth | 13 May 1859 33 20 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia |
| 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 (Age 7 months) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Birth of a sister | 17 May 1861 (Age 2) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Catherine Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 18 May 1861 (Age 2) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Catherine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1861 (Age 19 months) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
| Birth of a sister | 8 May 1862 (Age 2) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Alvine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1862 (Age 2) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 3) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Birth of a sister | 6 April 1864 (Age 4) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Helena Amalie Rathjen
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| Birth of a sister | 7 December 1865 (Age 6) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Caroline Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 22 November 1866 (Age 7)
younger sister -
Caroline Rathjen
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| Birth of a brother | 11 May 1867 (Age 7) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Johann Detlef Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 7) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 8) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Birth of a sister | 23 March 1869 (Age 9) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Wilhelmina Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1869 (Age 9) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | 5 March 1871 (Age 11) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Emma Othilda Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 3 August 1871 (Age 12)
younger sister -
Helena Amalie Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 12) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Birth of a brother | 18 May 1873 (Age 14) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Henning Frederick Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 13) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | 17 April 1875 (Age 15) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 15) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a sister | 8 November 1877 (Age 18) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Birth of a sister | 8 November 1877 (Age 18) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Alida Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 30 May 1878 (Age 19)
younger sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 18) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a brother | 28 September 1879 (Age 20) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alfred Edward Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 19) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 20) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Birth of a brother | 6 October 1881 (Age 22) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Adolph Otto Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 22) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 23) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 27) 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 29) 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 30) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 31) 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 32) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 46) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 48) 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 49) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 50) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Death of a mother | 30 September 1911 (Age 52) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Caroline Brunke
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 51) 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. |
| Death of a father | 3 March 1912 (Age 52) Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
father -
Henning Rathjen
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| Marriage of a sister | Amanda Rathjen - View family 9 October 1912 (Age 53) Australia
brother-in-law -
George Starritt OBE
younger sister -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 52) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 18 July 1913 (Age 54)
younger sister -
Wilhelmina Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 53) 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 53) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 54) 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 55) 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 56) 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 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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 60) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 61) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 62) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 63) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 66) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 67) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 68) 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 69) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Death | 13 January 1929 (Age 69) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Henning Rathjen
Birth 1 April 1826 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Death 3 March 1912 (Age 85) Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia |
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12 years mother |
Caroline Brunke
Birth 24 June 1838 Salzgitter, Niedersachsen, Germany Death 30 September 1911 (Age 73) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1857 |
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2 years #1 herself |
Louise Wiebchge Rathjen
Birth 13 May 1859 33 20 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 13 January 1929 (Age 69) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #2 younger sister |
Catherine Rathjen
Birth 17 May 1861 35 22 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 18 May 1861 (Age 1 day) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #3 younger sister |
Alvine Rathjen
Birth 8 May 1862 36 23 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 23 November 1946 (Age 84) |
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23 months #4 younger sister |
Helena Amalie Rathjen
Birth 6 April 1864 38 25 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 3 August 1871 (Age 7) |
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20 months #5 younger sister |
Caroline Rathjen
Birth 7 December 1865 39 27 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 22 November 1866 (Age 11 months) |
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17 months #6 younger brother |
Johann Detlef Rathjen
Birth 11 May 1867 41 28 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 13 October 1936 (Age 69) |
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22 months #7 younger sister |
Wilhelmina Rathjen
Birth 23 March 1869 42 30 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 18 July 1913 (Age 44) |
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23 months #8 younger sister |
Emma Othilda Rathjen
Birth 5 March 1871 44 32 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 9 June 1941 (Age 70) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #9 younger brother |
Henning Frederick Rathjen
Birth 18 May 1873 47 34 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 15 September 1939 (Age 66) Victoria, Australia |
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23 months #10 younger sister |
Birth 17 April 1875 49 36 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 21 August 1961 (Age 86) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #11 younger sister |
Josephine Rathjen
Birth 8 November 1877 51 39 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 30 May 1878 (Age 6 months) |
| #12 younger sister |
Alida Rathjen
Birth 8 November 1877 51 39 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 23 June 1958 (Age 80) |
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23 months #13 younger brother |
Birth 28 September 1879 53 41 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 29 August 1960 (Age 80) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #14 younger brother |
Adolph Otto Rathjen
Birth 6 October 1881 55 43 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 28 July 1961 (Age 79) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |