Alida RathjenAge: 801877–1958
- Name
- Alida Rathjen
- Given names
- Alida
- Surname
- Rathjen
| Birth | 8 November 1877 51 39 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia |
| Birth of a sister | 8 November 1877 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
twin sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Death of a sister | 30 May 1878 (Age 6 months)
twin sister -
Josephine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 54 days) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a brother | 28 September 1879 (Age 22 months) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alfred Edward Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 13 months) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 2) 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 3) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Adolph Otto Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 4) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 5) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 9) 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 11) 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 12) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 13) 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 14) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 15) 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 16) 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 17) 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 18) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 22) 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 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 28) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 30) 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 31) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 32) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Death of a mother | 30 September 1911 (Age 33) Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Caroline Brunke
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 33) 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 34) Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
father -
Henning Rathjen
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| Marriage of a sister | Amanda Rathjen - View family 9 October 1912 (Age 34) Australia
brother-in-law -
George Starritt OBE
elder sister -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 34) 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 35)
elder sister -
Wilhelmina Rathjen
|
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 35) 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 35) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 43) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 44) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 45) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 48) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 49) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 50) 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 51) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Louise Wiebchge Rathjen
|
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 51) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 52) 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 53) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 54) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 55) 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 58)
elder brother -
Johann Detlef Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 58) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 59) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 60) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Death of a brother | 15 September 1939 (Age 61) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Henning Frederick Rathjen
|
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 61) 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 62) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 9 June 1941 (Age 63) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Emma Othilda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1941 (Age 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 66) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 67) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Death of a sister | 23 November 1946 (Age 69)
elder sister -
Alvine Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1946 (Age 68) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 70) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 71) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 72) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 73) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 74) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 76) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 77) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 78) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 79) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Death | 23 June 1958 (Age 80) |
| 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 elder 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 elder 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 twin sister |
Josephine Rathjen
Birth 8 November 1877 51 39 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 30 May 1878 (Age 6 months) |
| #12 herself |
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 |