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Thomas OTWAY

Male 1819 - 1875  (56 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1820 
  • 1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
1821 
  • 1821: Faraday publishes \'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation\'
1826 
  • 1826: Edmund Lockyer arrives from NSW at Albany and establishes the first settlement in W.A. with troops and convicts.
1828 
  • 1828: Captain James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Swan River Colony 'Headlines of History' by Ian Edwards
1829 
  • 1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
  • 12 Aug 1829: City of Perth proclaimed.
1830 
  • 6 Apr 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.
1831 
  • 1831: Faraday in the first in a series of Experimental Researches in Electricity discovered the means of producing electricity from magnetism i.e. electromagnetic induction the generation of an electric field by a changing magnetic field. This is the principle of the dynamo
  • 1 Jun 1831: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
1832 
  • 1832: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
  • 1832: Electric telegraph invented by Morse
  • Sep 1832: Yagan was captured and sent to Carnac Island. He escaped 6 weeks later by taking the boat belonging to his captors. No attempt to recapture him was made, the six weeks being considered adequate penalty.
1833 
  • 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
  • 11 Jul 1833: Yagan is shot dead.
10 1836 
  • 1836: First brewery established in Western Australia.
11 1839 
  • 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
12 1840 
  • 1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
13 1841 
  • 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
14 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.
  • 17 Mar 1845: The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
15 1846 
  • 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
16 1850 
  • 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
17 1851 
  • 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
18 1856 
  • 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
19 1859 
  • 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
20 1861 
  • 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
21 1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
22 1864 
  • 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
23 1865 
  • 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
24 1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
25 1868 
  • 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
26 1870 
  • 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.