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John Samuel GIBBS

Male 1848 - 1908  (59 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1845 
  • 1845—1852: The Irish Potato Famine or the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland.
1850 
  • 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
1851 
  • 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
1856 
  • 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
1859 
  • 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
1861 
  • 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1864 
  • 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
1865 
  • 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
10 1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
11 1868 
  • 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
12 1870 
  • 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
13 1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
14 1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
15 1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
16 1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
17 1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
18 1884 
  • 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
19 1885 
  • 1885: Carl Benz builds the \'Motorwagen\', a single-cylinder motor car
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world\'s first motorcycle
  • 6 Jun 1885: First Australian rules football match played.
20 1886 
  • 1886: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
  • 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named Coca-Cola
21 1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
22 1888 
  • 1888: Celluloid photographic film introduced
  • 1888: Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.
  • 1888: Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
  • 1888: First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
23 1889 
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
24 1890 
  • 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
25 1891 
  • 1891: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name "the Commonwealth of Australia" and drafting a constitution.
  • 24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
26 1892 
  • 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
27 1893 
  • 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
28 1896 
  • 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
29 1898 
  • 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
  • 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
30 1900 
  • 1900: 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.
31 1901 
  • 1901: Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General.
  • 1901: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time.
  • Jan 1901: Queen Victoria's death.
32 1904 
  • 9 Nov 1904: In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
33 1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity