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Bertha Elizabeth BROCKMAN

Female 1876 - 1966  (90 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
1884 
  • 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
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.
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
1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
10 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
11 1889 
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
12 1890 
  • 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
13 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
14 1892 
  • 1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
  • 17 Sep 1892: Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
15 1893 
  • 14 Jun 1893: Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
16 1896 
  • 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
17 1898 
  • 1898: First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
  • 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
21 1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
22 1909 
  • 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
23 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.
24 1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
25 1915 
  • 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
26 1923 
  • 1923: Vegemite is first produced.
27 1924 
  • 4 Jun 1924: Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
28 1927 
  • 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
29 1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
  • 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
30 1929 
  • 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
31 1939 
  • 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
32 1945 
  • 1945: First Computer Built
  • 30 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
  • 6 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
33 1948 
  • 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
34 1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
35 1956 
  • 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
36 1959 
  • 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
37 1961 
  • 1961: Berlin Wall Built
  • 12 Apr 1961: The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union as a part of the Vostok programme of space exploration, with a cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
  • 5 May 1961: The United States became the second nation to achieve manned spaceflight, with the suborbital flight of astronaut Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, carried out as part of Project Mercury.
38 1962 
  • 1962: Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
  • 5 Aug 1962: Marilyn Monroe was found naked, dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
  • Oct 1962: The Cuban missile crisis.
39 1963 
  • 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
  • 22 Nov 1963: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST
40 1964 
  • 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
  • 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
41 1966 
  • 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
  • 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.