103 - Richard Weatherstone - Fairlight, NSW, Australia - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Over his 103 year life span the following significant or interesting things occurred. These are a number of uniquely Australian events that have been interspersed with some significant or interesting events elsewhere in the world.

Significantly this individuals life span predates the federation of Australia and the invention of Vegemite. He may have actually heard the eruption of Krakatoa the loudest sound in history.

1835- Proclamation of Governor Bourke, a document which formally declared that the British Crown, relying on the doctrine of terra nullius, owned the whole of the continent of Australia proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.
1835- John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner established a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.

1837- Telegraphy patented.
1837- Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist.

1837–1901 Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.

1838- By this time, 46,000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.

1839- Paul Edmund Strzelecki became the first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
1839- HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin Harbour during its surveying of the area. John Clements Wickham named the area Port Darwin in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin. The settlement became the town of Palmerston in 1869 and was renamed Darwin in 1911.

1840- Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, was established, followed by Sydney City Council.

1841- New Zealand was proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
1841- The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen

1842- Anaesthesia used for the first time.

1845- The ship Cataraqui was wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.

1847- The Bronte sisters publish Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.

1849- The safety pin and the gas mask are invented.
1849- Western Australia became a penal colony.

1850- Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, was founded.
1850–1864- Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest conflict of the century, leading to the deaths of 20 million people.

1851- Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.

1851- Victoria separated from New South Wales.
1851- The Victorian gold rush started when gold was found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.

1853- First paddle steamers on Murray River on the spring flood. From South Australia, the Lady Augusta captained by Francis Cadell, reached Swan Hill while Mary Ann captained by William Randell, made it as far as Moama.

1854- The Eureka Stockade instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom.

1855- The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceased.
1855- Bessemer process enables steel to be mass-produced.

1856- Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.

1858- Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

1859- Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

1859–1869 Suez Canal is constructed.

1860- John McDouall Stuart reached the centre of the continent.

1861- The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurred.

1863- United States President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.

1864- the adoption of the First Geneva Convention.

1865- United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

1866- Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.

1867- The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.
1867- Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.

1868- The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceased.

1869- Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. This practice lasted 100 years and is known as the Stolen Generation.
1869- Leo Tolstoy publishes War and Peace.
1869- Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table.

1870- Rasmus Malling-Hansen's invention the Hansen Writing Ball becomes the first commercially sold typewriter.

1871- Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.

1872- The Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opened.

1873- Uluru was first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
1873- Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1873- The samurai class is abolished in Japan.

1875–1900: 26 million Indians perish in India due to famine.

1876–1879: 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.

1877- Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

1879- Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.

1880- Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged.

1883- Krakatoa volcano explosion, one of the largest in modern history.
1883- Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published.

1884- Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1884- Sir Hiram Maxim invents the first self-powered Machine gun.

1885- Louis Pasteur creates the first successful vaccine against rabies

1886- Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift.
1886- Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile.
1886- Coca-Cola is developed.

1888- Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.

1889- The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
1889- Sir Henry Parkes delivered the Tenterfield Oration. In the Oration Parkes called for the Federation of the six Australian colonies, which were at the time self-governed but under the distant central authority of the British Colonial Secretary. It is allegorically considered to be the start of the federation process in Australia, that led to the foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia 12 years later.
1889- Aspirin patented.

1890- Banjo Paterson published "The Man from Snowy River"
1890- Death of Vincent van Gogh.
1890- The cardboard box is invented.

1891- A severe depression hit Australia
1891- First photographed manned glider flight by Otto Lilienthal

1892- Basketball is invented.
1892- Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premieres in St Petersberg.

1893- New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage.

1894- South Australia became the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote.
1894- First gramophone record.
1894- Karl Elsener invents the Swiss Army knife.

1895- "Waltzing Matilda" was first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
1895- Volleyball is invented.
1895- Wilhelm Rontgen identifies x-rays.

1896- Olympic Games revived in Athens.

1897- Bram Stoker writes Dracula.

1898- H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds

1899- The decision was made to site the Australian national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
1899- The New South Wales Lancers arrived in Cape Town from London to begin Australia's participation in the Second Boer War.

1901- Australia becomes a federation.
1901- Edmund Barton becomes the 1st Prime Minister of Australia
1901- The 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General of Australia
1901- The first Australian parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne
1901- The Immigration Restriction Act was introduced forming the bases of the White Australia policy
1901- The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time
1901- First Nobel Prizes awarded.
1901- Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal.

1902- Willis Carrier invents the first modern electrical air conditioning unit.

1903- First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright Brothers.
1903- The teddy bear is invented.

1904- Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
1904- Construction of the Panama Canal begins.

1905- Albert Einstein's formulation of relativity.

1906- Earthquakes in San Francisco, California (death toll: 3000) and Valparaíso, Chile (death toll: 20,000) occur.

1908- Australian Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
1908- Birth of Donald Bradman in Cootamundra, New South Wales.
1908- First commercial radio transmissions.
1908- The Ford Motor Company invents the Model T.
1908- The Tunguska impact devastates thousands of square kilometres of Siberia.
1908- Messina earthquake kills over 70,000 people.

1909- First airplane flight across the English Channel by Louis Bleriot
1909- The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
1909- Robert E. Peary claims to have reached the North Pole though the claim is subsequently heavily contested.

1910- Deaths of Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain.
1910- Halley's Comet returns.

1911- The Royal Australian Navy is founded
1911- Roald Amundsen first reaches the South Pole.
1911- Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic nucleus.

1912- Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
1912- Sinking of the RMS Titanic.

1913- The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place and Canberra is officially named as the Capital of Australia.
1913- Niels Bohr formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and in the process paves the way to quantum mechanics.
1913- Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

1914- 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.
1914- Panama Canal opens.
1914- last known passenger pigeon dies.

1915- Australian soldiers land at ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.
1915- Surfing is first introduced to Australia

1916- Hotels in Australia are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the "six o'clock swill"
1916- Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme

1917- Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
1917- Battle of Beersheba: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks.
1917- USA joins the Allies for the last 17 months of World War I.
1917- The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.

1918- Battle of Amiens: Australian troops spearhead offensive against Hindenburg Line
1918- Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V
1918- First World War ends – 60,000 Australians dead.

1919- First England to Australia flight: Keith Macpherson Smith and Ross Macpherson Smith (plus mechanics Sergeant W.H. (Wally) Shiers and J.M. (Jim) Bennett) in a Vickers Vimy
1919- Ernest Rutherford discovers the proton.
1919- First experimental evidence for the General theory of relativity obtained by Arthur Eddington.

1920- The Australian airline Qantas is founded
1920- Prohibition in the United States enforced.

1921- Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of the Nazi Party

1922- Death of Henry Lawson aged 55.
1922- March on Rome brings Benito Mussolini to power in Italy.
1922- Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the world's first officially Communist state, is formed.

1923- Vegemite is first produced
1923- Construction begins on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
1923- Time Magazine is first published.
1923- The Beer Hall Putsch ends in failure and brief imprisonment for Adolf Hitler but brings the Nazi Party to national attention.
1923- The Great Kanto earthquake kills at least 105,000 people in Japan.
1923- The Walt Disney Company is founded.

1924- Death of Vladimir Lenin triggers power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
1924- George Gershwin composes Rhapsody In Blue.

1925- Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy.
1925- Mein Kampf is published.
1925- First televisual image created by John Logie Baird.

1926- The first Miss Australia contest is held
1926- Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.

1927- Australian Parliament convenes in Canberra for the first time.
1927- The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie", is released.
1927- Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union.
1927- World population reaches 2 billion.

1928- Bert Hinkler becomes the first person to fly solo from England to Australia
1928- Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia.
1928- Discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming.
1928- Bubble gum is invented.
1928- Mickey Mouse is created at the Walt Disney Studio.

1929- Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.
1929- The first Academy Awards are presented.

1930- New South Wales batsman Don Bradman scores a world record first-class individual innings of 452 not out in a Sheffield Shield match against Queensland
1930- In the Third Test at Leeds against England, Don Bradman scored a Hundred before Tea, a Hundred before lunch, and a Hundred by the end of the day's play, 309 in Total. He went on to make 334. Altogether in his 52 Test career, Bradman scored 29 Hundreds, 12 Double Hundreds and 2 Triple Hundreds. This is therefore the fastest Triple Hundred in Test History.
1930- Phar Lap wins his only Melbourne Cup
1930- Aided by the Great Depression, the Nazi Party increases its share of the vote from 2.6% to 18.3%.
1930- Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930- First FIFA World Cup hosted.

1931- Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
1931- Death of Dame Nellie Melba aged 69.
1931- Floods in China kill up to 2.5 million people.
1931- Construction of the Empire State Building.

1932- The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
1932- The Nazi party becomes the largest single party in the German parliament.
1932- The Neutron is discovered.

1933- Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
1933- Prohibition in the United States is abolished.

1934- Adolf Hitler instigates the Night of the Long Knives, which cements his power over both the Nazi Party and Germany. With the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler declares himself Fuhrer of Germany.
1934- Bonnie and Clyde are shot to death in a police ambush.
1934- John Dillinger is gunned down by the FBI outside the Biograph Theater.

1935- Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith disappears. He was 38.
1935- Persia becomes Iran.

1936- "Benjamin", the last known thylacine, dies in Hobart Zoo.
1936- George Nissen and Larry Griswold build the first modern trampoline.

1937- The radio series Dad and Dave begins
1937- Japanese invasion of China, and the beginning of World War II in the Far East.
1937- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie released.
1937- Deaths of George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel.
1937- German zeppelin Hindenburg crashes in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

1938- Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
1938- Time Magazine declares Adolf Hitler as Man of the Year.
1938- DC Comics hero Superman has its first appearance.

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