Timeline
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Last updated: 26 Oct 2010.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| Top of page | |
| 1600 - 1699 | Top of page |
| 1603 | British Monarch - James I |
| 1606 | First English Colony in America |
| 1610 | Robert Heather born |
| 1614 | Mary ? [Heather] born |
| 1622 | Nathaniel Potter born |
| 1625 | British Monarch - Charles I |
| 1632 | Robert Heather married Mary |
| 1640 | Robert Heather born |
| 1642-46 | English Civil War |
| 1649 | Oliver Cromwell |
| 1652 | Helen Potter born |
| 1658 | Richard Cromwell |
| 1660 | British Monarch - King Charles II |
| 1665 | The London Plague |
| 1666 | The Great Fire of London |
| 1666 | Mary Hyder born |
| 1666 | William Milgate born |
| 1676 | Robert Heather married Helen Potter |
| 1676 | Robert Heather born |
| 1680 | John Upton married Anne Harden |
| 1684 | Robert Heather died |
| 1684 | Thomas Upton born |
| 1685 | British Monarch - King James II |
| 1689 | British Monarch - King William III & Queen Mary II |
| 1693 | William Milgate married Mary Hyder |
| 1694 | Thomas Milgate born |
| 1695 | Mary ? [Heather] died |
| 1700 - 1749 | Top of page |
| 1700 | Robert Heather died |
| 1701 | Thomas Upton married Ann Jeffery |
| 1702 | British Monarch - Queen Anne |
| 1706 | Robert Heather married Ann Heart |
| 1708 | Richard Buckwell born |
| 1709 | Robert Heather born |
| 1712 | Alice ?[Buckwell] born |
| 1714 | British Monarch - King George I |
| 1720 | Thomas Milgate born |
| 1724 | Sarah Tyler born |
| 1727 | British Monarch - King George II |
| 1729 | Thomas Upton born |
| 1737 | James Lewis Lloyd born |
| 1738 | Mary Buckwell born |
| 1739 | Thomas Milgate married Sarah Tyler |
| 1742 | Thomas Milgate born |
| 1745 | Robert Heather died |
| 1746 | Elizabeth Wennington born |
| 1749 | Rebecca May born |
| 1750 - 1799 | Top of page |
| 1757 | Robert Heather married Elizabeth Wennington |
| 1760 | British Monarch - King George III |
| 1760 | George Howell born |
| 1761 | Thomas Upton married Mary Buckwell |
| 1763 | Thomas Upton born |
| 1764 | Thomas Eather born |
| 1766 | Thomas Milgate married Rebecca May |
| 1767 | Martha Bartholomew born |
| 1768 | James Lewis Lloyd married Eleanor Brown |
| 1770 | Elizabeth Jacket born |
| 1770 | John Browning born |
| 1770 | Lt James Cook maps east coast of Australia |
| 1770 | Jane Lloyd born |
| 1771 | Elizabeth Lee born |
| 1775 | John Crowley born |
| 1777 | Patrick Hand born |
| 1777 | Sussanah Godden born |
| 1780 | Robert Heather died |
| 1781 | Samuel Milgate born |
| 1786 | Catherine Hatch born |
| 1786 | Thomas Upton married Martha Bartholomew |
| 1788 | First Fleet arrived |
| 1788 | NSW Governor - Arthur Phillip |
| 1788 | Ann Bray born |
| 1789 | Nepean/Hawkesbury River discovered |
| 1789 | Rebecca May died |
| 1790 | Second Fleet arrived |
| 1790 | Thomas Eather, arrived at Sydney aboard the Neptune, 2nd Fleet. Sentence: 14 years transportation |
| 1791 | Third Fleet arrived |
| 1791 | Elizabeth Lee, arrived at Sydney aboard the Mary Ann, 3rd Fleet. Sentence: 7 years transportation |
| 1791 | Thomas Eather married Eliazabeth Lee |
| 1791 | Thomas Upton born |
| 1792 | NSW Governor - Phillip departed |
| 1792 | William Bryant, arrived at Sydney aboard the Pitt. Sentence: 7 years transportation |
| 1794 | Hawkesbury area opened for settlement |
| 1795 | NSW Governor - John Hunter |
| 1796 | Jane Charlotte Bryant born - our first ancestor born here. |
| 1797 | Hunter River discovered, coal deposits along banks. |
| 1798 | Bass & Flinders circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land |
| 1798 | Severe drought destroyed crops |
| 1799 | Hawkesbury River flooded, destroying crops & buildings, animals swept away, 1 man dead |
| 1800 - 1849 | Top of page |
| 1800 | NSW Governor - Philip Gidley King |
| 1800 | NSW population 5995, half living in Sydney, rest at Parramatta, Toongabbie and Hawkesbury districts |
| 1800 | Francis Crowley died |
| 1800 | William Henry Browning born |
| 1801 | Elizabeth Jackson died |
| 1801 | Anne Littlejohn born |
| 1801 | Penal settlement at Newcastle established to mine coal |
| 1802 | Phillip Joseph Post born |
| 1802 | Clara Kraus born |
| 1802 | George Howell, arrived at Sydney aboard the Perseus. |
| 1803 | Britain renewed war with France |
| 1803 | Samuel Milgate married Sussanah Godden |
| 1803 | Flinders completed circumnavigation of Australia |
| 1803 | First settlement in Van Diemans's Land (VDL), Risdon Cove on Derwent River |
| 1803 | First record of cricket in NSW |
| 1803 | First NSW newspaper, Sydney Gazzette and NSW Advertiser |
| 1803 | John Crowley, arrived at Sydney aboard the HMS Glatton. |
| 1803 | Patrick Hand, arrived at Sydney aboard the Rolla. |
| 1804 | Hobart Town established in VDL |
| 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France |
| 1804 | First steam train in England |
| 1804 | Hannah Hill, arrived at Sydney aboard the Experiment. |
| 1805 | NSW Governer - William Bligh |
| 1806 | Hawkesbury River, major flooding, crops destroyed |
| 1807 | Slave trade abolished in British Empire |
| 1808 | Rum Rebellion |
| 1808 | Catherine Hatch, arrived at Sydney aboard the Experiment. |
| 1809 | NSW Governor - Lachlan Macquarie |
| 1809 | Thomas Howell born |
| 1809 | Severe drought in NSW destroys crops; water shortages |
| 1809 | Electric telegraph invented |
| 1810 | Caterpillar plague destroys crops in Hawkesbury area |
| 1810 | James Milgate born |
| 1810 | Mary Ann Upton born |
| 1810 | First settlement in Victoria region, Port Fairy |
| 1811 | John Crowley married Jane Charlotte Bryant |
| 1811 | Thomas Upton married Ann Bray |
| 1811 | James Eather born |
| 1811 | Stephen Wiggins married Frances Ann Peters |
| 1813 | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains |
| 1814 | First permanent white settlement in New Zealand |
| 1815 | End of Napoleonic Wars |
| 1815 | Elizabeth Crowley born |
| 1815 | Mary Ann Hand born |
| 1817 | Partial famine in Ireland |
| 1819 | Singapore founded |
| 1820 | British Monarch - King George IV |
| 1820 | Thomas Milgate died |
| 1821 | NSW Governor - Thomas Brisbane |
| 1821 | Port Macquarie penal settlement founded |
| 1821 | Thomas Upton died |
| 1823 | Cultivation of Lower Hunter area began |
| 1823 | Jane Eaton nee Lloyd died |
| 1823 | Liverpool Plains discovered |
| 1824 | Severe drought in NSW destroyed crops |
| 1824 | James Barnes born |
| 1824 | Colony of Moreton Bay established |
| 1824 | Henry Page born ? |
| 1824 | RSPCA founded in England |
| 1825 | NSW Legislative Council was formed |
| 1825 | Phillip Joseph Post married Clara Josepha Kraus |
| 1825 | Van Dieman's Land seperated from NSW |
| 1825 | Catherine Hand nee Hatch died |
| 1825 | Katherine Maurer born |
| 1825 | Moreton Bay penal colony moved and renamed Brisbane |
| 1825 | First steam railway began in England |
| 1825 | NSW Governor - Ralph Darling |
| 1826 | Severe drought in NSW, crops destroyed |
| 1826 | George Post born |
| 1827 | Western Australia established |
| 1827 | Patrick Hand died |
| 1827 | Thomas Eather died |
| 1829 | Colony of Swan River, WA, established |
| 1829 | Maria Botton born |
| 1830 | British Monarch - King William IV |
| 1830 | James Milgate married Mary Ann Upton |
| 1830 | Port Arthur penal settlemant open in VDL |
| 1831 | Start of Government assisted free immigration to NSW from Britian |
| 1831 | Richard Reading born |
| 1831 | NSW Governor - Richard Bourke |
| 1832 | Thomas Howell married Elizabeth Crowley |
| 1833 | John Crowley died |
| 1833 | Rebecca Raynor born |
| 1834 | Colony of Port Phillip established |
| 1834 | Slaves throughout British Empire freed |
| 1835 | James Eather married Mary Ann Hand |
| 1835 | William Henry Browning born |
| 1836 | South Australia established |
| 1836 | Thomas Eather born |
| 1837 - 1901 | British Monarch - Queen Victoria |
| 1837 | Worst drought since first settlement, rivers dry up |
| 1838 | First steamship crossing of Atlantic Ocean |
| 1838 | Naomi Milgate born |
| 1838 | William Henry Browning and family arrived NSW |
| 1838 | NSW Governor - George Gipps |
| 1839 | George Howell died |
| 1839 | Sarah Chillingworth born |
| 1840 | Transportation of convicts to NSW ended |
| 1840 | Morse code invented |
| 1840 | First bugerigars exported to England |
| 1840 | Strezlecki discovered and named Mt Kosciuszko |
| 1841 | Australia's first gas street lighting, Sydney |
| 1841 | New Zealand declared a British Colony |
| 1842 | Charlotte Margaret Howell born |
| 1843 | Australian population passes 1/4 million. |
| 1844 | Regular monthly mail service between Australia and England began |
| 1845 | Great Potao Famine began in Europe |
| 1846 | NSW Governor - Charles Augustus FitzRoy |
| 1847 | Severe drought began in NSW |
| 1848 | George Post married Katherine Maurer |
| 1849 | George Post and family arrived NSW, Florist |
| 1849 | James Barnes married Maria Botton |
| 1849 | Henry Page married Rebecca Raynor |
| 1850 - 1899 | Top of page |
| 1850 | First NSW adhesive postage stamp issued |
| 1850 | Charles Henry Eckert born |
| 1850 | Work began on first NSW railway line, Sydney to Parramatta |
| 1850 | Transportation of convicts to WA began |
| 1851 | Gold rushes at Bathurst and Bendigo/Ballarat |
| 1851 | Hannah Howell nee Hill died |
| 1851 | Victoria seperated from NSW |
| 1852 | Australian population passes 1/2 million. |
| 1852 | Transportation of convicts to VDL ended |
| 1852 | First Australian university, University of Sydney |
| 1854 | Transportation of convicts to Norfolk Is., Moreton Bay and Port Phillip ended |
| 1854 | Benjamin David Page born |
| 1854 | Eureka Stockade rebellion |
| 1854 | First Australian telegraph line |
| 1855 | Mary Ann Johnston born |
| 1855 | Richard Reading married Naomi Milgate |
| 1855 | William Henry Browning married Sarah Chillingworth |
| 1855 | James Barnes and family arrived NSW, Samuel Boddington |
| 1855 | NSW Governor - William Denison |
| 1856 | Van Dieman's Land renamed Tasmania |
| 1858 | Australian population passes 1 million. |
| 1858 | Benjamin Charles Thomas Gray born |
| 1858 | George Post naturalised |
| 1859 | Queensland seperated from NSW |
| 1859 | William Henry Browning born |
| 1860 | Mary Lucy Post born |
| 1860 | Roseanna Barnes born |
| 1860 | Thomas Eather married Charlotte Margaret Howell |
| 1860 | Elizabeth Eather nee Lee died |
| 1861 | Burke and Wills perished |
| 1861 | NSW Governor - The Lord Lisgar |
| 1861 | Sussanah Milgate nee Godden died |
| 1861 | First Melbourne Cup, won by Archer |
| 1861 | American Civil War began |
| 1862 | Cobb & Co began operations |
| 1863 | Electric lighting demonstrated in Sydney |
| 1863 | Control of Northern Territory given to SA from NSW |
| 1866 | Katherine Post nee Maurer died |
| 1868 | NSW Governor - The Earl Belmore |
| 1868 | Transportation of convicts to WA ended |
| 1868 | Jane Charlotte Eather born |
| 1868 | John Reading born |
| 1868 | Aboriginal cricket team tours England |
| 1869 | Suez Canal opened |
| 1869 | Darwin established |
| 1869 | James Milgate died |
| 1870 | British forces withdrawn form Australian Colonies; Colonies supply own forces |
| 1872 | NSW Governor - Lord Rosmead |
| 1872 | Europe connected to Australia by telegraph |
| 1872 | Samuel Milgate died |
| 1873 | Uluru/Ayers Rock first sighted by Europeans |
| 1875 | First Australian postcards issued in Sydney |
| 1875 | George Post died |
| 1876 | Thomas Howell died |
| 1877 | Australian population passes 2 million. |
| 1877 | Charles Henry Eckert arrived Australia, Northumberland |
| 1877 | First cricket Test match between Australia and England, Aust' won |
| 1877 | Port Arthur penal settlement closed |
| 1878 | First Australian telephone line. Melbourne |
| 1878 | William Henry Browning married Mary Ann Johnston |
| 1879 | NSW Governor - Augustus Loftus |
| 1880 | First Australian Census, pop' 2.25 million, excluding Aboriginals |
| 1880 | Annie Gertrude Millington born |
| 1882 | Charles Henry Eckert married Mary Lucy Post |
| 1882 | Benjamin David Page married Roseanna Barnes |
| 1882 | Australia wins the first Ashes Test |
| 1883 | Maria Barnes nee Botton died |
| 1883 | Sydney to Melborne railway opened |
| 1884 | John Eckert born |
| 1884 | Elizabeth Browning born |
| 1885 | Mary Ann Milgate nee Upton died |
| 1885 | NSW Governor - Lord Carrington |
| 1886 | First car built, by Daimler in Germany |
| 1889 | Australian population passes 3 million. |
| 1889 | Rail network linking Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne completed |
| 1889 | John Reading married Jane Charlotte Eather |
| 1890 | Charles Henry Eckert naturalised |
| 1891 | NSW Governor - The Earl of Jersey |
| 1891 | Elizabeth Howell nee Crowley died |
| 1891 | Benjamin Page born |
| 1893 | Henry Page died |
| 1893 | NSW Governor - Robert Duff |
| 1894 | Mary Ann Eather nee Hand died |
| 1895 | NSW Governor - Viscount Hampden |
| 1896 | First modern Olympic Games, Athens |
| 1896 | Benjamin Charles Thomas Gray married Annie Gertrude Millington |
| 1898 | Leah Mildred Page born |
| 1899 | Charlotte Margaret Eather nee Howell died |
| 1899 | NSW Governor - Earl Beauchamp |
| 1899 | James Eather died |
| 1900 - 1949 | Top of page |
| 1900 | Beginning of a decade of Bubonic Plague in Australia |
| 1901 | Australian Federation |
| 1901 | First Australian PM, Sir Edmund Barton |
| 1901 | British Monarch - King Edward VII |
| 1901 | Marconi transmits radio waves across Atlantic Ocean |
| 1902 | Benjamin David Page died |
| 1903 | PM Alfred Deakin |
| 1903 | Evelyn Gray born |
| 1903 | Wright Bros fly at Kitty Hawk |
| 1904 | PM John Watson |
| 1904 | PM George Reid |
| 1905 | Australian population passes 4 million. |
| 1905 | William H. Browning died |
| 1905 | John Eckert married Edith May Browning |
| 1905 | PM Alfred Deakin |
| 1906 | John David Eckert born |
| 1906 | Surf bathing during daytime is made legal |
| 1908 | PM Andrew Fisher |
| 1908 | Site of Federal capital decided |
| 1909 | PM Alfred Deakin |
| 1909 | William Henry Browning died |
| 1909 | Bleriot flies across English Channel |
| 1909 | Ford began assembly line production of the Model-T |
| 1910 | First Australian designed and built airplane flown |
| 1910 | British Monarch - King George V |
| 1910 | PM Andrew Fisher |
| 1911 | Federal Capital Territory established (renamed ACT 1938) |
| 1911 - 1916 | Major Australian drought |
| 1911 | Compulsory enrolment to vote in federal elections |
| 1912 | Control of NT changed from SA to Commonwealth |
| 1913 | PM Joseph Cook |
| 1913 | Foundation Stone laid for Canberra |
| 1913 | Panama Canal opens |
| 1914 | PM Andrew Fisher |
| 1914 | Rebecca Page nee Raynor died |
| 1914 - 1918 | WWI |
| 1915 | Gallipoli |
| 1915 | PM William Hughes |
| 1916 | Naomi Reading nee Milgate died |
| 1917 | Richard Reading died |
| 1918 | Australian population passes 5 million. |
| 1918 | Ben Page married Leah Mildred Reading |
| 1918 | Freda Muriel Page born |
| 1918 | Sarah Browning nee Chillingworth died |
| 1919 | Global Flu pandemic reaches Australia; 12000 die. |
| 1922 | QANTAS begins operations. |
| 1923 | Vegemite begins production. |
| 1923 | PM Stanley Bruce. |
| 1925 | Australian population passes 6 million. |
| 1927 | Parliament House opened in Canberra. |
| 1927 | Mary Anne Browning nee Johnston died |
| 1928 | John David Eckert married Evelyn Gray. |
| 1929 | Edward John Eckert born. |
| 1929 | PM James Scullin. |
| 1929 | Thomas Eather died |
| 1929 | The Great Depression began. |
| 1930 | Benjamin Charles Thomas Gray died. |
| 1932 | Sydney Harbour Bridge opened. |
| 1932 | PM Joseph Lyons. |
| 1933 | Bodyline cricket series. |
| 1934 | Edith May Eckert nee Browning died. |
| 1934 | Charles Henry Eckert died. |
| 1936 | King Edward VIII. |
| 1936 | King George VI. |
| 1936 | John Reading died. |
| 1938 | Mary Lucy Eckert nee Post died. |
| 1939 - 1945. | WWII. |
| 1939 | PM Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page. |
| 1939 | PM Robert Menzies. |
| 1939 | Australian population passes 7 million. |
| 1939 | John Eckert died. |
| 1939 | Annette Rae Page born. |
| 1941 | Annie Gertrude Gray nee Millington died. |
| 1941 | John David Eckert enlisted in Army. |
| 1941 | PM Arthur Fadden. |
| 1941 | PM John Curtin. |
| 1942 | John David Eckert taken Prisoner-of-War. |
| 1945 | John David Eckert freed. |
| 1945 | PM Francis Ford. |
| 1945 | PM Ben Chifley |
| 1945 | PM Robert Menzies. |
| 1948 | First Holden produced. |
| 1949 | Australian population passes 8 million. |
| 1950 - present | Top of page |
| 1952 | Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 1953 | Jane Charlotte Reading nee Eather died. |
| 1954 | Australian population passes 9 million. |
| 1956 | Melbourne Olympic Games |
| 1956 | Regular TV services began in Australia. |
| 1957 | Sputnik launched. |
| 1958 | Benjamin Page died. |
| 1959 | Australian population passes 10 million. |
| 1961 | First man in space, Yuri Gargarin. |
| 1962 | Edward John Eckert married Annette Page. |
| 1963 | Australian population passes 11 million. |
| 1966 | Decimal currency introduced into Australia. |
| 1966 | PM Harold Holt |
| 1967 | Evelyn Eckert nee Gray died. |
| 1967 | PM John McEwen. |
| 1968 | PM John Gorton. |
| 1968 | Australian population passes 12 million. |
| 1969 | First men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. |
| 1970 | Williams & Eckert began business. |
| 1970 | Metric measurement began in Australia. |
| 1971 | PM William McMahon. |
| 1971 | Australian population passes 13 million. |
| 1972 | PM Gough Whitlam. |
| 1973 | Freda Muriel Coffey nee Page died. |
| 1973 | Sydney Opera House opened. |
| 1974 | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin. |
| 1975 | Colour TV starts in Australia. |
| 1975 | PM Malcolm Fraser |
| 1976 | Australian population passes 14 million. |
| 1977 | Brendan Mark Eckert died. |
| 1979 | Leah Mildred Page nee Reading died. |
| 1981 | Australian population passes 15 million. |
| 1983 | PM Bob Hawke |
| 1984 | Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's National Anthem. |
| 1986 | Australian population passes 16 million. |
| 1988 | Australian Bi-centenary. |
| 1990 | Australian population passes 17 million. |
| 1991 | PM Paul Keating |
| 1995 | Australian population passes 18 million. |
| 1996 | John David Eckert died. |
| 1996 | PM John Howard. |
| 1998 | Edward John Eckert died. |
| 1999 | Australian population passes 19 million. |
| 2000 | Sydney Olympic Games. |
| 2001 | Centenary of Australian Federation. |
| 2002 | Annette Rae Eckert nee Page died.. |
| 2002 | Jason Greenslade married Amanda Eckert. |
| 2002 | Wayne Eckert married Diane Nicholas. |
| 2003 | Australian population passes 20 million. |
| 2007 | Australian population passes 21 million. |
| 2008 | PM Kevin Rudd. |
| 2009 | Pierce Collits married Lea-Anne Eckert. |
| 2010 | Australian population passes 22 million. |