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George Henry BENNETT

Male 1859 - 1935  (75 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1851 
  • 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
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
1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
1868 
  • 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
1870 
  • 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
10 1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
11 1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
12 1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
13 1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
14 1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
15 1884 
  • 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
16 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.
17 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
18 1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
19 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
20 1889 
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
21 1890 
  • 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
22 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
23 1892 
  • 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
24 1893 
  • 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
25 1896 
  • 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
26 1898 
  • 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
  • 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
27 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.
28 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.
29 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.
30 1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
31 1909 
  • 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
32 1912 
  • 15 Apr 1912: On the night of April 14, at 11:40 p.m., The Titanic struck an iceberg; just under three hours later, at 2:20 AM, on April 15, 1912 the ship sank.
33 1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
34 1915 
  • 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
35 1923 
  • 1923: Vegemite is first produced.
36 1924 
  • 4 Jun 1924: Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
37 1927 
  • 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
38 1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
  • 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
39 1929 
  • 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.