Henning Frederick RathjenAge: 661873–1939
- Name
- Henning Frederick Rathjen
- Given names
- Henning Frederick
- Surname
- Rathjen
| Birth | 18 May 1873 47 34 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | 17 April 1875 (Age 22 months) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 19 months) 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 4) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Birth of a sister | 8 November 1877 (Age 4) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Alida Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 30 May 1878 (Age 5)
younger sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 4) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a brother | 28 September 1879 (Age 6) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alfred Edward Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 5) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 6) 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 8) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Adolph Otto Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 8) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 9) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 13) 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 15) 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 16) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 17) 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 18) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 22) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 27) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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 32) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 34) 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 35) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 36) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Death of a mother | 30 September 1911 (Age 38) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Caroline Brunke
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 37) 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 38) Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
father -
Henning Rathjen
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| Marriage of a sister | Amanda Rathjen - View family 9 October 1912 (Age 39) Australia
brother-in-law -
George Starritt OBE
younger sister -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 38) 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 40)
elder sister -
Wilhelmina Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 39) 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 39) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 47) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 48) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 49) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 52) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 53) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 54) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 13 January 1929 (Age 55) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Louise Wiebchge Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1929 (Age 55) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 56) 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 57) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 58) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 59) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death of a brother | 13 October 1936 (Age 63)
elder brother -
Johann Detlef Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 62) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 63) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 64) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 65) 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 |
| Death | 15 September 1939 (Age 66) 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 elder sister |
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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 himself |
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 |