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James FERGUSON

Male 1828 - 1891  (63 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1836 
  • 1836: First brewery established in Western Australia.
1839 
  • 1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
1840 
  • 1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
10 1841 
  • 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
11 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
12 1846 
  • 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
13 1850 
  • 1 Jun 1850: Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
14 1851 
  • 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
15 1856 
  • 1856: Neanderthal man first identified.
16 1859 
  • 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
17 1861 
  • 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
18 1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
19 1864 
  • 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
20 1865 
  • 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
21 1866 
  • 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
22 1868 
  • 9 Jan 1868: Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
23 1870 
  • 3 Jan 1870: Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
24 1876 
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
  • 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
25 1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
26 1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
27 1880 
  • 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
28 1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
29 1884 
  • 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
30 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.
31 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
32 1887 
  • 1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
  • 1887: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
33 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
34 1889 
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
35 1890 
  • 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
36 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