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Mary FINKELL

Female 1805 - 1882  (77 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1808 
  • 20 Dec 1808: Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
1809 
  • 12 Feb 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
1813 
  • 1813: Jane Austen wrote \'Pride and Prejudice\'
1815 
  • 18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blcher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last.
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.
10 1830 
  • 6 Apr 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.
11 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
12 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.
13 1833 
  • 1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.
  • 11 Jul 1833: Yagan is shot dead.
14 1836 
  • 1836: First brewery established in Western Australia.
15 1839 
  • 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
16 1840 
  • 1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
17 1841 
  • 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
18 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
19 1846 
  • 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
20 1850 
  • 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
21 1851 
  • 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
22 1856 
  • 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
23 1859 
  • 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
24 1861 
  • 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
25 1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
26 1864 
  • 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
27 1865 
  • 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
28 1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
29 1868 
  • 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
30 1870 
  • 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
31 1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
32 1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
33 1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
34 1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.