Family
and International Chronology, as devised by J.Fall, modified.
1722:
Valentine Knight (1009M) born
1754: Valentine Knight
(1110M) born
1756: Thomas Humfrey
(1106M) born
1764c: Chamberlain Mole born
1768: Martha Milton born
1769: Valentine Knight
(1009M) died
1750: Hargreaves designs his jenny
1755: Samuel Johnson
publishes his English Dictionary
1758: Horatio Nelson born
1755-
1763: Britain & France
struggle for America & India
1763: Canada ceded to
Britain
1763: Watt begins on steam
engine and Wedgwood starts pottery.
1766: Malthus born 1769:
Napoleon Bonaparte born
1773c: William Watson born
1779: Edward Fall born
1788: Thomas Humfrey (1003M) died
1789: John Hochee born in
Hyan-Shan, Canton, China
1791c: Frances Mary de
Brotherton born
1792c Valentine Knight
(1230) born
1795: Joseph Humfrey born
1799c: Thomas Rumble born
1770: East coast of
Australia discovered by James Cook
1788: Arthur Phillip arrived at Sydney cove
1770: Beethoven, Wordsworth
born
1774: Louis XVI begins his
reign
1776: American Declaration
of Independence
1776: Adam Smith publishes The
Wealth of Nations
1776: Jenner vaccinates
1781: Watt perfects the
steam engine
1783: Peace treaty between
USA and UK
1788: Mozart composes his
last three symphonies
1789: Storming of the
Bastille
1791: The Jacobin Revolution
1791: Birth of Michael
Faraday
1793: France declares war
on England
1793: Louis XVI beheaded
1799: First modern income
tax UK)
1799: Napoleon becomes
first consul
1801c: Elizabeth Watson
born
1806: Charlotte Mole born
1808: Edward Fall married
Mary
1816: Chamberlain Mole (1117M) died
1817: James Edward Fall
born (25 Nov)
1819: John Hochee comes to
England from Canton, China (Aug)
1821: Valentine Knight
(1230M) becomes Freeman of the Goldsmith's Hall (5 Dec).
1823: John Hochee &
Charlotte Mole marry (6 Jan)
1823: Valentine Knight
(1230) marries Elizabeth Watson (13 Dec).
1825: John Hochee moves to
a farm at Lingfield, Surrey
1828: Thomas Rumble & Frances
Brotherton marry (5 Aug)
1831: Anthony Knight born (24 Oct)
1834: Henry Euean Rumble born (9 Sep)
1834: Letitia Hochee born
(15 Oct)
1813: Benevolent Society of NSW established to provide relief for free
[non-convict] paupers.
1814: Creation of first
civil court in Australia
1826: Edmund Lockyer establishes tiny outpost at King George Sound (Albany)(25
Dec)
1827: James Stirling
examines the Swan River area
1829: Captain Fremantle
took formal possession of the Western third of the continent (2 May) .
1829-1849: WA period of
semi stagnation
1830: Trial by Jury
established in Australia
1834: The Battle of
Pinjarra - 13 aborigines and one policeman die
1800: Nautilus -
first submarine
1804: Bonaparte becomes
Emperor
1805: Battle of Trafalgar
1807: Abolition of Slave
trade
1811: The Luddites
1812: Napoleon's retreat
from Moscow
1812: War with America
1815: The battle of Waterloo
1815: Streets of London
& Paris lit by gas
1815: Steamers on the
Thames
1819: In Britain, first Factory Act passed through efforts of Robert Owen
1821: Faraday develops the
electric generator
1824: The Stethoscope invented
1825: The first railway:
Stockton to Darlington
1827: The Safety friction match became available
1830: Many inventions: lawn-mower, locomotive, tin canned fruit; sewing machine
in France.
1832: Reform Bill restored
democratic character of British Parliament
1832: Early form of indoor
bath.
1833: Cholera in London
1836: Thomas Humfrey
(1106M) died
1838: John Hochee applies
for citizenship
1838: Grace Martha Humfrey
(1301F) born
1839: Thomas Rumble Clerk
of Works for
Royal Berkshire Hospital
1839: John Hochee granted
British Citizenship (21 Nov)
1840: James Edward Fall and
Louisa Townshend marry (1 Jan)
1842: Joseph Humfrey
(1202M) died
1850: George Edward Fall born (19 Oct)
1854: John Hochee's benefactor, John Elphinstone, died
1856: Thomas Rumble (1201M)
died (1 Feb)
1856: Louisa Mary Shayer
born (7 Aug)
1857: William Watson
(1109M) died (25.11)
1859: Edward Fall died (12
Apr)
1860: Henry Euean Rumble & Grace Humfrey marry (11 Oct)
1860: Anthony Knight &
Letitia Hochee marry secretly (24 Oct)
1861: Anthony Knight &
Letitia Hochee marry officially (1 Aug)
1862: Anthony & Letitia
Knight arrive in New Zealand.
1863: Arthur William Glover
born (1 Jan)
1866: Harry Humfrey Rumble born (21 Jun)
1866: Kate Rosaline Knight
born at Christchurch, New Zealand (15 Mar)
1867: Valentine Knight
(1230M) died (17 Nov)
1867: Frances Brotherton (1201F) died
(13.12)
1869: John Hochee (1203M)
died (1 Mar)
1869: Anthony & Letitia
Knight leave New Zealand to return to UK (8 Mar).
1836: Trial export of timber from WA
1840s: Local Govt. established in Australia
1841: Economic depression
triggered by reduction in British demand for wool (to 1844)
1846: Benedictine monastery founded at New Norcia
1850: Convict
transportation to Eastern colonies discontinued
1850: First boatload of
convicts arrive in Western Australia (Jun)
1850: First railway line in
Australia, Sydney to Goulburn
1850 - 1868: Rapid Growth
in WA.
1850: Swan River Colony
population 5,886 (Dec)
1851: WA Pearling began
1851: Major discoveries of
gold in Eastern States of Australia
1854: Eureka Stockade,
Ballarat: protest against Authoritarian goldfield administration
1856: First secret ballot
1860s - 1880s in Australia, sustained economic growth
1868: Last boatload of convicts arrive in Western Australia
1868 - 1886: Period of
slow-down in WA
1869: Swan River Colony
population 22,915 (Dec)
1869: Perth to Fremantle
telegraph communication established
1835: The word "Socialism"
first used
1836:
Dickens:"Pickwick Papers"
1837: Queen Victoria
crowned
1837: Early photography -
Daguerretype
1838: First trans-Atlantic
steamship crossing
1839: Early bicycle
1839: Charles Goodyear
discovers how to vulcanise rubber
1840: Chinese Opium War.
1840: Postage stamps
introduced
1840: Iron stoves replace
hearth cooking
1843: Age of the Clipper
ships begins
1849: Safety pin introduced
1851: First cable to Calais
1851: Singer sewing machine
invented
1851: The Great Exhibition
of London
1852: The Paper bag
introduced
1853: Commodore Perry opens
Japan to East-West trade.
1854: The Crimean war
starts. Ends 1856.
1856: Steel developed
1857: John Stuart Mill
publishes his essay On Liberty
1857: The Indian Mutiny
1857: Free libraries open
in England and Germany
1857: Louis Pasteur begins
his pioneering studies
1858: First cable to
America
1859: Charles Darwin
completes the Origin of Species
1860: First wooden washing
machine
1861: American Civil War begins (Ends 1865)
1862: French annex
Cochin-China
1863: Roller skates
introduced
1863: Henry Ford born
1865: Lister introduces
antiseptic surgery
1865: Foundation of
Salvation Army
1866: Dynamite patented by
Alfred Nobel
1866: First transatlantic
cable laid
1866: "Alice in
Wonderland" published
1866: Dostoevsky published Crime
& Punishment
1867: Karl Marx completes
Volume I of Das Kapital
1867: Werner Siemens
introduces the electric dynamo
1869: Social Democratic
Working Men's Party founded in Germany
1869: Suez canal opened
1870: Emily
Louisa McNamara born (23 May)
1870: Mabel Witton (1470F)
born (11 July)
1872: Alan Love (1470M) born
1878: James Edward Fall died (4 Sep)
1879: Isabel Anderson born
(11 Sep)
1870: Pastoralists push
towards De Gray, Gasgoyne, Murchison districts
1870: Withdrawal of British
troops: Colonial Govts. required to make some provision for defence.
1870: Overland telegraph
line connecting Perth with Adelaide and Darwin completed.
1870: Population (31 Mar):
W.A: 24,785. Aust:
1,606,057
1871: First W.A.
Railway:Busselton to the nearby forest.
1872: Secular, compulsory
& free primary education in Victoria. Other colonies follow. Churches near
monopoly of education is broken.
1873: First Victorian
Factory Act to control "sweating" - largely ineffective.
1879: First Australian trade union congress follows formation of trades &
labour councils in industrial centres
1870: Franco-Prussian war
begins
1871: German Empire established
1871: Stanley finds
Livingstone in Africa
1871: Verdi completes the
opera Aida
1871: Charles Darwin
publishes his controversial Descent of Man
1873: Clerk Maxwell
publishes his studies on electricity and magnetism
1873: Remington Typewriter
introduced
1875: Gilbert &
Sullivan, "Trial by Jury"
1876: Otto develops the
four-stroke internal combustion engine
1876: Bell patents the
telephone
1879: Ibsen writes A
Doll's House
1879: Edison demonstrates
electrical lighting
1882: Charlotte Mole died (1 Jul)
1882: Anthony & Letitia
Knight settle at 2 Vanbrugh Terrace, Blackheath.
1887: Harry Humfrey Rumble & Kate Rosaline Knight marry (30 Jul)
1889: Horace Rumble born at Reading UK (18 Jun)
1880: Capture of Ned Kelly
1880: First cargo of
Australian beef sent to UK
1880s Formation of
Employer' organisations
1881:
Midland/Perth/Fremantle railway.
1882: Women's Christian
Temperance movement formed
1883: First Woman University Graduate in Australia
1885: W.A.Colony population 35,000
1886: Kimberley Gold found
1887: First telephone
exchange in Perth
1888: Yilgarn and Pilbara
gold fields proclaimed.
1880: Some indoor bathrooms
are built
1880: Dostoevsky publishes The
Brothers Karamazov
1881: Boer War
1881: Russian Emperor
Alexander II assassinated
1882: Charles Darwin dies
1882: Robert Koch isolates
the bacillus of tuberculosis
1882: The British occupy
Egypt
1883: Bismark establishes
social welfare measures in Germany
1883: Karl Marx dies
1884: Charles Parsins
develops a steam turbine
1884: First motor car;
fountain pen; the modern safety bike.
1884: Germany establishes
colonies in East Africa
1884: Gold discovered on
the Rand
1885: Hiram Maxim invents
the machine gun
1885: Carl Benz builds his
motor car
1886: Britain annexes Burma
1887: Queen Victoria's
Jubilee
1888: John Dunlop produces
his pneumatic tyre
1888: Edison perfects the
phonograph (gramophone)
1889: Electrical lifts
(elevators) for commercial buildings. The one-armed bandit
1891: Eric Rumble born (14 Jan)
1891: Harry and Kate Rumble
leave Britain because of a family quarrel
1892: Harry and Kate Rumble
arrive Sydney (12 Feb)
1892: Leslie Rumble born
(24 Aug)
1894: Grace Humfrey (1301F)
died (16 Jan)
1894: Maude Mildred Rumble
born (18 Feb)
1894: Vera Glover born (23
Mar)
1894: (Allison) Muriel Love
born (10 Sep)
1890s Severe economic
depression with loss of export earnings & overseas investment; acute
unemployment; creation of State labour bureaux; authorities supplement
charitable relief
1890: Self-Government in WA
1890: Major strikes among
maritime, pastoral & mining workers (to 1894) State repression of striking
unions
1891: Sir John Forrest,
first Premier of Western Australia
1891: Population (5 Apr):
W.A: 49,782. Aust:
3,177,823
1892: Gold at Coolgardie
1893: Gold at Kalgoorlie
1894: Australian Railway extended to Southern Cross
1894: Women win the vote in
SA. [Other colonies follow over next 14 years]
1890: An all-steel bridge
is completed over the Firth of Forth
1890: Bismark is dismissed
1890: The Comic Strip. The
Kodak Camera
1891: The Zip is invented.
1892: Diesel engine
patented
1893: An independent labour
party is formed in England
1893: Ford's first car
1893: Tschaikovsky writes Symphonie
Pathetique
1895: Elizabeth Watson died
(1230F) (10 Mar)
1896: (Euean) Humfrey Rumble born at Petersham, NSW (25 Feb)
1897: Harry & Kate
Rumble arrive at Fremantle: Harry obtained work (1 May) with Public Works
Department. Lived first in Henderson St., then move to Mamion Street,
Fremantle.
1897: Kate Knight
re-establishes contact with her family in the UK
1897: Edward John Chown
born (1 Nov)
1898: Phyllis Mary Rumble
born (6 May)
1899: Frank Spencer born
(23 Oct)
1890s Fremantle harbour
dredged and moles constructed
1895: W.A.Colony population
101,000
1895: Kindergarten Union
formed in NSW
1895: Wages boards set up
in Victoria for regulation of wages and conditions. Other colonies follow.
1897: Alluvial mining in
W.A. reached its peak.
1899: First tram in Perth
(Sep)
1890s First wave of
feminism (Suffragettes)
1895: Marconi demonstrates
radio
1895: The Safety razor is
invented
1896: Lenin publishes Development
of Capitalism in Russia
1896: Electric stove
introduced in USA
1897: Breakfast cereal is
introduced
1897: Rudolf Diesel patents
the diesel engine
1898: Radium is discovered
by the Curies
1899: The Boer War starts
in South Africa
1899: The Boxer Rebellion
breaks out in China
1899: Freud makes public
his controversial Interpretation of Dreams
1900: Dorothy Rumble born
(29 Dec)
1901: Louisa Townshend died
(3 Apr)
1902: Harry & Kate
Rumble become Catholics
1902: Henry Euean Rumble
died (24 Mar)
1902: Victor George Fall
born (20 Dec)
1903c: Harry Rumble moves
to Colin Street, West Perth.
1900s Economic recovery
1900: NSW Arbitration court
established to settle industrial disputes. Other states follow
1900: Major outbreak of
bubonic plague in Sydney (between 1900 and 1922 there were ten major outbreaks
of bubonic plague in Australia, resulting in more than 530 deaths)
1900: Plague scare in Perth
(Apr)
1900: Western Australia
votes overwhelmingly for Federation (1 Aug)
1901: Commonwealth of
Australia comes into being (1 Jan) Edmund Barton first Prime Minister
1901: Melbourne crowd
cheers statement that a White Australia is on prime importance (10 Jun)
Commonwealth legislation to enforce White Australia immigration policy.
1902: Women granted the
vote in Federal elections
1903: Goldfields water
supply scheme opened (1 Feb)
1903: Barton resigns,
Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister (24 Sept)
1904: Labour leader,
Watson, Prime minister (22 April);George Reid, PM (18 Aug), followed by return
of Deakin.
1904: Commonwealth arbitration
court formed
1904: NSW Royal Commission
into the decline of the birth-rate
1900: Max Planck presents
his quantum theory
1900: Freud founds science
of Psychoanalysis, publishes The Interpretation of Dreams.
1901: Queen Victoria dies
after a reign of 64 years (22 Jan)
1901: First message sent
over Marconi's transatlantic wireless telegraph
1901: Beginning of Boy
Scouts
1902: The Teddy Bear comes into being
1903: Wright brothers make
their first aeroplane flight
1903: Ford Motor Company
formed (16 Jun)
1903: Mechanical vehicles
driven at 20 miles per hour
1904: Trans-Siberian
Railway completed by the Russians
1904: Russo-Japanese War
begins
1904: Fleming invents the
diode for Radio (Oct)
1905: Neck chains for
Aborigines banned in Western Australia (14 May)
1905: Melbourne tries
street gas lamps in place of kerosene lamps (July)
1905: NSW buys 1000 miles
of netting to control rabbits (sept)
1904-1919: More than 2,500 miles of railway line built in Western Australia
1906: Immigrant's fare UK
to WA £7 (Mar)
1906: Bill to make voting
compulsory (June)
1905: Einstein presents his
theory of relativity
1906: Wright Bros. plane flies 24 miles (Jan)
1906: First radio broadcast in USA
1906: British Empire spans
20% of the globe.
1906: Earthquake devastates
San Francisco (Apr)
1906: Lee De Forest invent
triode valve for radio
1909: Lydia Bassett born (13 Mar)
1912c: Harry Rumble moves to Aberdeen Street, Perth.
1912: Anthony Knight died
(1307M) (25 May)
1912: Harry & Kate
Rumble Silver Wedding Anniversary (30 June)
1913: Horace Rumble
launches the Mercedes (3 May)
1914: Frederick Lewis (Lew)
Mills born (26 April) ; Martha Salens escaped from France on the last boat
out.
1914: Harry Rumble moves to
Heytesbury Road, Subiaco. He leaves the Catholic church.
1907: Electric vacuum
cleaner and washing machine introduced in USA
1908: Huge London
"Votes for Women" rally
1908: Model T Ford car
produced (Aug)
1908: Aviator Wright flies
for over an hour (Oct)
1909: Blériot makes his
first aeroplane flight across the English Channel (July)
1909: London-India 7000
mile telegraph link (Jan)
1909: Bakelite - first
synthetic resin
1910: First film, In
Old California, made in Hollywood, USA (10 Mar)
1910: Halley's comet comes
close to Earth (20 May)
1910: The Union of South
Africa is formed
1910: Stravinsky's Firebird
is performed
1910: Russell and Whitehead
write Principia Mathematica
1911: Ernest Rutherford
creates a nuclear model of the atom
1912: The Balkan Wars begin
1913: D.H.Lawrence writes Sons and Lovers
1913: First mass production
assembly line (Ford Motor plant in USA)
1913: Panama canal opens
(Oct)
1914: The Archduke
Ferdinand is assassinated (28 June)
1914: Britain declares war
against Germany (5 Aug)
1915: Eric Rumble &
Isabel Anderson marry (31 Jul)
1915: Harry Rumble moves to
Bunbury as Resident Civil Engineer (10 Aug)
1916: Harry Rumble buys a
motorbike
1916: Harry Rumble
campaigns for introduction of conscription.
1916: Horace Rumble enlists
and goes to Blackboy Camp (15 May). Leaves for overseas (10 Oct)
1917: Horace Rumble
reported missing (22 May)
1917: James Eric Rumble
born (31 May)
1917: George Edward Fall
died (19 Aug)
1918: Joan Isabel Davey
born (16 Feb)
1918: Dorothy Rumble met Victor
Fall, & Phyllis Rumble met Edward Chown (Nov)
1919: Horace Rumble returns to Fremantle on hospital ship (22 Jan)
1919: Horace Rumble &
Vera Glover marry (26 Feb)
1919: Frances Martha Rumble
born.
1919: Ross Anthony Rumble
born (19 Apr)
1915: Australians at
Gallipoli (April)
1915: Billy Hughes PM
(Labour) (Oct)
1915: Retreat from
Gallipoli (20 Dec)
1916: Harvey irrigation
scheme
1916: Conscription
referendum defeated (Oct)
1917: Completion of
Trans-Australian Railway
1917: Hughes re-elected
Australian PM (May)
1918: Australian boys aged
18-20 no longer need parents' consent to enlist (6 May)
1918: Australian Public
Service employment reaches 43,000 (Aug)
1918: News of the Armistice
is wildly celebrated (12 Nov)
1918: Influenza epidemic in
Sydney (Dec)
1919: Melbourne, first
electric trains (May)
1915: Germans use chlorine
gas in war (April)
1915: Einstein proposes new
Gravity theory
1916: Stainless steel
introduced
1917: The Russian
Revolutions (16 Mar)
1917: USA enters the war
(April)
1918: First World War ends
(11 Nov) : The automatic toaster.
1919: Lenin establishes the
Communist International for world revolution (3 Mar)
1919: Britain to Australia
air race completed (10 Dec)
1920: Jean Rumble born
(1605F) (10 Feb)
1920: Letitia Hochee died
(9 Jul)
1920: Erwin Hollis Westover
(1605AM) born
1921: Harry & Kate
Rumble return to the Catholic Church (12 Oct)
1921: Kate Rumble receives
a £1,700 legacy from her mother's estate
1922: Robert (Bob) Rumble
born (25 Jan)
1922: Beryl Dulcie Osborn
born (6 Apr)
1922: Harry Rumble
transferred to Perth. They buy a house in Fitzgerald St. North Perth. (29 Apr)
1922: Humfrey Rumble and
Muriel Love marry (26 Sep)
1922: Joseph Rumble born (15th
Sept)
1923: Victor Fall gives up
the sea and becomes a timber clerk at Mornington Mills.
1923: Lesley June Rumble
born (13 Aug)
1924: Joseph Dougan born
(13 Jun)
1924: Leslie Rumble
ordained priest (26 July)
1925: Maude Rumble &
Frank Spencer marry (14 Apr)
1925: Dorothy Rumble and
Victor Fall marry (22 Jun)
1925: Peter Brian Rumble
born (23 Jul)
1926: James McCormick
Carroll born (12 Jun)
1926: (Dorothy) Joan Fall
born (22 Jul)
1926: Ailsa May Rumble born
(10 Aug)
1926: Miriamme Blanche
Spencer (Chown) born (7 Sep)
1926: Kathleen Mary Melson
born (18 Oct)
1926: Maude Rumble died (26
Oct)
1926: Barton Francis Warren
(1605BM) born
1927: Phyllis Rumble and
Edward Chown marry (19 Nov)
1928: Joyce Shirley Graham
born (15 Mar)
1928: Nancy Claire Rumble
born (20 Apr)
1928: Harry Humfrey Rumble
retired from the Public Works Department. (30 Apr)
1928: John Victor Fall born
(7 May)
1928: Miriamme Spencer
adopted by Phyllis & Ted Chown (25 Jun)
1929: Joseph Edward Chown
born (15 Nov)
1925: First compulsory
voting in Australia (14 Nov)
1926: Record bad weather
and floods in Western Australia (Jun-Jul)
1927: Duke of York
officially opens Canberra (9 May)
1927: Child Endowment
introduced in NSW
1928: Launch of the Flying
Doctor service (27 Apr)
1928: Relief measures for
growing unemployment in Australia (May)
1923: German currency
crisis (22 Jun)
1923: 300,000 dead in Tokyo
earthquake (15 Sep)
1923: Adolf Hitler stages a
coup attempt at Munich (8 Nov)
1924: Tutankhamun's
sarcophagus opened (12 Feb)
1924: First Labour
Government in Britain
1924: Joseph Stalin emerges
as Russian strongman after death of Lenin
1924: First electric
dishwasher in USA
1925: General Kiang
Kai-Shek becomes leader of China's Kuomintang (12 Mar)
1926: John Logie Baird
sends moving pictures by wireless (27 Jan)
1926: Riots in Calcutta
between Hindus and Muslims (May)
1926: General Strike in
Britain (May)
1926: The British Empire
becomes the British Commonwealth of Nations (Nov)
1927: Lindburgh flies the
Atlantic (21 May)
1927: First
"talkie" movie -The Jazz Singer
1927: Iraq makes its first
oil strike (15 Oct)
1928: Campbell sets land
speed record 206 mph.
1928: Walt Disney's
"Mickey Mouse" appears
1928: Fleming discovers
Penicillin (30 Sept)
1929: Wall Street crash:Black Thursday (24 Oct)
1930: Gregory Francis
Sheehan born (3 Jul)
1931: Elsa Erica Rumble
born (23 Jan)
1932: John David Young born
(23 Feb)
1932: Peter John Matthews
born (28 Aug)
1932: Kate Knight died.(31
Oct)
1934: Alison Rumble born
(29 Jul)
1934: John Thomas Baseden
born (11 Aug)
1930s Severe economic
depression; prolonged unemployment; unemployment relief funds established in
NSW, Qld & Victoria, Australia
1930: Amy Johnson reaches
Darwin on solo London-Australia flight (24 May)
1931: Joe Lyons PM (21 Dec)
(to 1939)
1932: Sydney Harbour Bridge
opens (21 March)
1934: Racial violence in
Kalgoorlie between European & WA Goldminers (30 Jan)
1930: Fall in World prices
of wheat & wool
1930: Mahatma Gandhi starts
his march to the sea.
1930: British jobless hit 2
million mark (Aug)
1930s: Dance bands spread
jazz as swing
1931: World's
tallest,Empire State Building opens (1 May)
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes
Chancellor of German Reich (30 Jan)
1934: Fluorescent lamp
introduced
1934: Mao Tse-Tung starts
his long march
1937: Edward Leslie Chown
born (20 Apr)
1937: Robin Elizabeth
Rumble born (1 Jun)
1937: Timothy Er Ming Tay
born (15 Oct)
1937: Robert Joseph Furphy
born (21 Jun)
1935-39: Watson-Watt
develops Radar
1935: Penguin books
publishes paperbacks
1936: Maiden voyage of the Queen
Mary, 80,700 ton super liner (27 May)
1936: Civil War in Spain
(31 July)
1937: George VI crowned (12
May)
1937: Java man discovered
(10 Dec)
1938: Walt Disney produces Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs (14 Jan)
1938: British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain promises Peace for our time"(30Sep)
1938: Germans march into
Czechoslovakia (5 Oct)
1838: The Ball-point pen
appears ;Production of Nylon
1939: James
Eric Rumble and Joan Isabel Davey marry (30 Sep)
1939: Wendy Salisbury
Smithard born
1941: Dawn Evangeline
Mayberry born (16 Feb)
1942: Penelope Adrienne
Rumble born (29 Oct)
1942: Jean Rumble marries
Erwin Westover. Later divorced.
1943: Kenneth Gordon
Westover born (Feb)
1944: Graeme Rumble born
(13 Sep)
1939: Bob Menzies PM
(20 Apr)
1939: Kolynobbing WA iron
ore deposits found: possible iron/steel industry in WA (31 May)
1939: Australia enters the
war against Germany (3 Sep)
1930s, Late: Trolley Buses
in Perth
1940: Commonwealth Child
Endowment starts
1942: Uniform Commonwealth
income tax introduced.
1942: Darwin is bombed (19
Feb)
1942: Home front placed on
a war footing; influx of women to the workforce for duration of war (to 1945)
1943: PAYE -Pay as you earn
- taxation introduced in Australia (22 Mar)
1939: The Helicopter;
Plexiglas; Lucite
1940: Winston Churchill
becomes British Prime Minister (10 May)
1940: Allied forces
evacuated from Dunkirk (4 June)
1941: Nazis invade Russia
(30 June)
1941: Japanese attack Pearl
Harbour (7 Dec)
1942: Japanese invade
Malaysia, take Singapore (15 Feb)
1942: Enrico Fermi creates
first nuclear chain reaction.
1944: Wernher von Braun
produces the V2 the first truly long-range rocket
1944: D-Day:Allied troops
land at Normandy (6 June)
1946: Ross Anthony Rumble
and Beryl Dulcie Osborn marry (3 Aug)
1946: Mabel Love (nee
Witton) (1470F) died (3 Aug)
1946: Joan Fall and Joseph
Dougan marry in New Jersey, USA
1947: Baden Rumble born (31
May)
1947: Bob Rumble &
Marjorie Stott married (2 Aug)
1947: Mark Rumble born (31
Aug)
1947: Suzanne Dougan born
(14 Sep)
1948: Kevin Nolan Rumble
born (16 Feb)
1948: Harry Humfrey Rumble
died (4 Jul)
1948: Peter Brian Rumble
and Joyce Shirley Graham marry (25 Sep)
1948: Isabel Anderson died
1949: Nancy Rumble &
Lew Mills marry (5 Feb)
1949: Mary Rumble born (20th
June)
1949: Caroline Maria Perry
born (25 Mar)
1949: Trevor John Rumble
born (7 Aug)
1949: Susan Rumble born (25
Oct)
1949: Jean Rumble and
Barton Warren marry
1945: Full employment (to
1973) Large scale immigration, industrial expansion
1945: National unemployment
& sickness benefit introduced
1945: Ben Chifley PM (13
July)
1945: The Snowy Mountain
scheme: The last great public works project. Henceforth, private capital
undertakes large scale construction
1948: Forty-hour working
week starts in Australia (1 Jan)
1948: The Australian car,
the "Holden" is produced
1945: The "United
Nations" is formed (25 April)
1945: Germans surrender (7
May)
1945: Atom bomb dropped on
Hiroshima (9 Aug)
1945: Japan surrenders (15
Aug)
1946: Britain says
Australia best place for Atomic tests
1946: Indonesian President
Sukarno calls for war on the Dutch (29 June)
1947: Britain agrees to
partition India (23 May)
1948: Michael Rumble born
1948: Mahatma Gandhi shot
(30 Jan)
1948: State of Israel
created (14 May)
1949: George Orwell
publishes prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949: Mao proclaims China a
communist state (1 Oct)
1949: Russia tests Atom
bomb (Oct)
1950: Rosemary Rumble born
(9 Mar)
1950: Raymond Mills born (4
July)
1951: Lesley June Rumble
and James McCormick Carroll marry (3 Mar)
1951: Jennifer Dougan born
(3 Sep)
1951: Wayne Rumble born (14
Oct)
1952: Christine Rumble born
(2 Jan)
1952: Graeme Carroll born
(20 Feb)
1952: Ian Rumble born (22
Apr)
1952: Pamela Rumble born
(25 Nov)
1953: Elsa Erica Rumble and
Peter John Matthews marry (11 Apr)
1953: Jan Taylor born (27
Nov)
1950: Brief recession (to
1951)
1950: White Australia
policy creates antagonism in South East Asia (Apr)
1953: Oil discovered in
Exmouth Gulf,WA (4 Dec)
1950: Vietnam splits to
North & South (7 Feb)
1950: Korean War (to 1953)
1951: USA tests Hydrogen
Bomb (May)
1951: Suez Canal conflict
(Oct)
1952: Britain's first
atomic weapon tested in Australia (3 Oct)
1953: Wide-Screen
Cinemascope introduced (Feb)
1953: Watson & Crick
discover genetic DNA molecule (April)
1953: Edmund Hilary climbs
Everest (1 June)
1953: Elizabeth II is
crowned (2 June)
1954:
Miriamme Chown (Spencer) and John David Young marry (13 Feb)
1954: James Matthews born
(17 Mar)
1954: Stephen Carroll born
(10 Oct)
1954: Mary Dougan born (3
Dec)
1954: John Victor Fall and
Kathleen Mary (Kay) Melson marry (11 Dec)
1954: John Young born (11
Dec)
1955: Robert Matthews born
(26 Feb)
1955: Alison Rumble and
John Thomas Baseden marry (9 Sep)
1955: Judith Fall born (9
Sep)
1955: Angela Rumble born
(10th Sept)
1955: Paul Rumble born (23
Oct)
1956: Trevor Matthews born
(4 Oct)
1956: Ailsa May Rumble and
Gregory Francis Sheehan marry (3 Nov)
1957: Louisa Mary Glover (nee Shayer) died (5 April)
1957: Peter Fall born (12
Jul)
1957: Peter Young born (25
Jul)
1957: Betty Dougan born (23
Oct)
1958: Kim Matthews born (7
Apr)
1959: Jennifer Kay Warren
born
1959: Craig Sheehan born
(31 May)
1959: Sharon Baseden born
(3 Jun)
1959: Anne Matthews born
(21 Jun)
1959: Janine Carroll born
(30 Jun)
1957: Sydney Opera house conceived (Jan)
1957: Unions seek equal pay
for women (Mar)
1957: Malaya achieves
independence (30 Aug)
1954: IBM announce a
computer for business - rent $25,000 a month (May)
1954: First atomic power
station (USSR)
1954: Salk polio vaccine
1955: Civil war breaks out in Vietnam (Apr)
1956: The danger of working
with asbestos is realised (Jan)
1956: Alabama: Civil Rights
movement against segregated schools
1956: Nasser seizes Suez
Canal (26 July)
1957: USA: school
desegregation achieved (Sept)
1957: First spacecraft Sputnik-I
launched USSR (4 Oct)
1958:
"High-Fidelity" stereo records introduced (Aug)
1959: Soviet rocket Lunik
II hits the moon (Sept)
1960: Jane Rumble born (12
May)
1960: Penelope Adrienne
Rumble and Timothy Er Ming Tay marry (2 Jul)
1960: Robin Elizabeth
Rumble and Robert Joseph Furphy marry (16 Sep)
1960: Amanda Tay born (31
Dec)
1960: Brett Michael Waldie
born
1961: Patricia Matthews
born (26 Jan)
1961: Stephen Furphy born
(25 Feb)
1961: Mark Sheehan born (13
Dec)
1961: Kim Lorraine Warren
born (adopted)
1962: Valerie Furphy born (2 Mar)
1962: David Matthews born
(16 May)
1962: Louise Young born (8
Oct)
1962: Vincenzo Ammendolea
born
1963: Lydia Bassett died (4
Feb)
1963: Dominique Mulder born
(11 Mar)
1963: Michelle Baseden born
(12 Mar)
1963: Daniel Tay born (3
Aug)
1964: Arlene Furphy born (7
Jan)
1964: Peter Matthews born
(16 Jan)
1964: Edward Leslie Chown
and Dawn Evangeline Mayberry marry (26 Oct)
1960s Increase in mineral
exports; First commercial production of crude oil.
1962: Perth leaves its lights on for John Glenn as he orbits the earth in his Mercury
capsule (20 Feb)
1962: Advisers sent to
Vietnam (May)
1962: Commonwealth Games
held in Perth (22 Nov)
1963: Ord River Dam started
(20 July)
1963: Hamersley Iron ore
deal opens up the Pilbara in WA (1 Aug)
1964: Military conscription
introduced
1960: Laser beam developed
1961: Contraceptive pill on sale in UK (Jan)
1961: USSR puts first man
in space (12 Apr)
1961: RAF Vulcan flies
non-stop UK to Australia (22 June)
1961: The Berlin Wall is
built (Aug)
1961: Dangers of
Thalidomide drug discovered
1962: USA increases
military aid to South Vietnam (Jan)
1962: Satellite world-wide
communication begins
1963: Pop group The Beatles release first LP (Long-Playing vinyl
record)
1963: Successful kidney
transplant (Feb)
1964:Japanese
"bullet" train - 130 m.p.h.
1964: US steps up action
against Vietnam (Aug)
1965: Eric Rumble dies in a
car accident (6 Feb)
1965: Brenda Furphy born
(18 Mar)
1965: Stephanie Tay born (4
May)
1965: Philip Matthews born
(7 Jul)
1965: Deirdre Chown born
(13 Jul)
1966: Annette Chown born
(22 Aug)
1966: Gail Chown born (22
Aug)
1966: Richard Tay born (10
Sep)
1966: Barrow Island Oil
discovered
1965: US Astronaut takes
walk in space (June)
1966: Unmanned US space ship lands on moon (June)
1966: Mao proclaims Chinese
cultural revolution (13 Aug)
1968: Hayley Chown born (10
Apr)
1968: Robert Tay born (14
Jul)
1968: Kenneth Gordon
Westover and Wendy Smithard marry
1969: Raena Chown born (6
Sep)
1969: Madeline Tay born (22
Dec)
1970: Terence Matthews born
(29 Mar)
1972: Geoffrey Matthews
born (27 Feb)
1972: Lisa Samantha
Westover born
1972: Skye Arkeveld born
(12 Aug)
1972: Lisa Westover born
(14 Dec)
1973: Christine Tay born (1
Feb)
1973: Georgia Chown born
(15 Aug)
1974: Sarah Rumble born (22
Aug)
1974: Victor Fall died (18
Nov)
1972: Ord River Dam opened
(Jul)
1973: Murdoch University
established in Perth (25 Jul)
1973: Sydney Opera House
opened (20 Oct)
1973: Henderson inquiry
reveals one fifth of Australians in poverty.
1973: Decline in secondary
industry; rapid changes in labour market; persistent unemployment; widening of
gap between rich and poor.
1974: Colour Television in
Australia (Oct)
1974: Cyclone Tracy
flattens Darwin (25 Dec)
1967: Israel-Arab six-day
war (June)
1967: First human heart
transplant (Dec)
1967: First Anglo-French
super-sonic Concorde plane (Dec)
1968: Tet offensive hits at
Saigon (Jan)
1968: Anti-American student
riots in Paris (May)
1968: President Johnson
orders cessation of US bombing of Vietnam
1969: Human eggs fertilised
in test tube (Feb)
1969: Maiden flight of the
Concorde (9 April)
1969: Neil Armstrong lands
on moon (21 July)
1971: UK votes to join
European common market (Oct)
1971: First commercial
pocket calculators
1971:Intel Corp. patents
microprocessor chip
1972: World's first kidney
and pancreatic tissue transplant (25 Jan)
1972: US President Nixon
steps up North Vietnam bombing (April)
1974: Amanda Rumble born (10th
May)
1975: Matthew Chown born
(31 Jan)
1975: Ryan Storry born (25
May)
1975: Emanuel Arkeveld born
(15 Aug)
1975: (Allison) Muriel
Rumble (nee Love) died (8 Sept)
1975: Christopher Young
born (18 Oct)
1975: Kate Flower born (21
Oct)
1975: Richard Tasker born
(30 Oct)
1975: Leslie Rumble died (9
Nov)
1976: Edward Chown (1515M)
died (7 Jan)
1976: Michael Tay born (18
Feb)
1976: Jodie Matthews born
(24 Feb)
1976: Frank Spencer died
(25 June)
1976: Amy Rumble born (1
July)
1976: Samantha Rumble born
(12th Oct)
1977: Paul Tasker born (17
Feb)
1977: Leon Carroll born (30
Mar)
1977: Jennifer Kay Warren
and Brett Michael Waldie marry (Later divorced)
1977: Michael James Waldie
born
1977: Livia Rumble born (28
Aug)
1977: Simon Flower born (21
Oct)
1977: Michael Waldie born
(7 Dec)
1978: Brett Young born (3
Aug)
1978: Susan Tay born (4
Aug)
1978: Kristina Diakos born
(10 Sept)
1978: Gillian Carroll born
(2 Dec)
1975: Saigon falls: Vietnam
war over (30 Apr)
1975: Suez canal opens
after 8 years (5 June)
1975: North Sea oil
developed. (June)
1975: Civil war in Timor
(Aug)
1975: Affordable personal
computers appear
1977: Exodus of boat people
from Vietnam begins (Dec)
1978: First test-tube baby
born, UK (26 July)
1978: Shah of Iran imposes
martial law (8 Sep)
1978: Millions march in
Iran against Shah (Dec)
1978:
Rhodesian whites vote for black rule (30 Jan)
1979: Lewis
Chown born (6 Feb)
1979: Humfrey Rumble died
(25 Apr)
1979: Shannon Fall born (26
Aug)
1979: Anthony Matthews born
(19 Sept)
1979: Tegan Rumble (29 Oct)
1979: Benjamin Ozanne born
(26 Nov)
1979: Jeremy Rumble born
(10 Dec)
1980: Amanda Llewellyn born
(12 Feb)
1980: Maria Diakos born (13
May)
1980: Benjamin Rumble born
(14 Mar)
1980: Brenda Matthews born
(18 May)
1980: Sheena Rumble born
(19th July)
1980: Erin Carroll born (28
Aug)
1980: James Tasker born (4
Nov)
1981: Thomas Flower born
(15 Jan)
1981: Ailsa May Rumble died
(3 Mar)
1981: Michelle Fall born
(16 Mar)
1981: Marjorie Rose Rumble
(nee Stott) died (21 Mar)
1981: Gemma Tay born (28
Oct)
1982: Natalie Rooker (10
Mar)
1982: Robert Rumble born (5
May)
1982: Beau Rumble born (28
May)
1982: Christopher Fall born
(28 Sept)
1982: Johanne Mills born
(21 Oct)
1982: Leila Rumble born (26
Dec)
1983: Sasha Ozanne born (9
Jan)
1983: Beren Matthews born
(23 Mar)
1983: Hayley Ahearn born (2
July)
1983: Frances Carroll born
(23 Aug)
1983: Monica Rooker (14
Oct)
1984: Megan Knecht born (3
Jan)
1984: Daniel Matthews (14
Jan)
1984: Emily Rumble born (6
June)
1984: Amy Rumble born (24
Aug)
1984: Zayla Storry born (26
Sept)
1984: Luke Jacques (Nov)
1984: Christoper Mills born
(19 Dec)
1979: Cambodia falls to
Vietnam (8 Jan)
1979: Shah of Iran driven
to exile (16 Jan)
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini
returns to Iran (1 Feb)
1979: Spacecraft Voyager
I send back photos of Jupiter rings (7 Mar)
1979: Egypt & Israel
sign peace treaty (26 Mar)
1979: Margaret Thatcher
wins British Elections (4 May)
1979: Iran takes US
hostages (4 Nov)
1980: Genetic engineering
synthesis of Interferon, a natural virus-fighting agent (16 Jan)
1980: Union Jack lowered in
Rhodesia, replaced by red-star flag of Zimbabwe (18 April)
1980: World Health
Organisation claims world smallpox has been eradicated (8 May)
1980: Creation of
"Solidarity" union in Poland (22 Sep)
1981: Ronald Reagan becomes
US President (20 Jan)
1981: Iran releases
hostages (Jan 21)
1981: US medics warn of new
infection, prevalent in homosexuals that destroys the immune system. At present
unnamed (Dec)
1982: Argentina invades,
captures Falkland Islands (2 April): Falklands War.
1982: Argentina surrenders
to Britain (14 June)
1982: Israel invades
Lebanon (29 June)
1982: Iran launches
offensive into Iraq (14 July)
1982: The Electronic
micro-chip developed over past ten years now in calculators, watches. Liquid
crystal displays developed. Fibre-optics begin to replace conventional cables.
Word processors start taking over office work, and computerised robots appear
in production lines. Lasers are used in medicine.
1983: Reagan urges development
of futuristic "Star Wars" missile shield (Mar)
1983: The Compact Disk is
launched, eventually to replace LP records
1983: AIDS - first case
reported in Sydney (July)
1984: AIDS Virus is
discovered (April)
1984: Hong Kong: framework
of deal to handover to China in 1997 announced (1 Aug)
1984: South Africa new
constitution gives limited power to non-whites (3 Sep) Sharpeville Massacre (4
Sep)
1984: Fatal gas leak at
Bhopal, India kills over 2,000 and affects 200,000 (10 Dec)
1985: Harmony Matthews (17
Jan)
1985: Matthew Bridgwood
born (10 Mar)
1985: Benjamin Young born
(24 Mar)
1985: Patrick Tay born (10
Apr)
1985: Alex Tay born (10
Apr)
1985: Samuel Harlowe born
(Nov)
1986: Dylan Matthews born
(21 Jan)
1986: Dale Storry born (13
Mar)
1986: Jennifer Kay Warren
and Vincenzo Ammendolea marry
1986: Emilie Matthews born
(8 Aug)
1986: Corey Matthews born
(20 Aug)
1986: Sharney Rumble born
(10 Oct)
1986: Tsepo Llewellyn born
(24 Oct)
1986: Louise Bridgwood born
(7 Dec)
1986: Perth International
Airport opens (26 Oct)
1986: The Challenge series
for America's Cup begins at Fremantle (9 Oct)
1985: French sink
Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior at Aukland (10 July)
1985: World Health
Organisation says AIDS has reached epidemic proportions (13 Sep)
1986: USSR reactor at
Chernobyl power station on fire, causes massive radiation leakage
(30 April)
1986: Chinese students hold
huge "democracy" demonstrations in various cities (21 Dec)
1987:
Patrick Carroll born (5 Feb)
1987: Sarah Young born (13
Mar)
1987: Natalie Rumble born
(18 May)
1988: Melissa Harlowe born
(Jan)
1988: Phyllis Chown (nee
Rumble) died (6 Feb)
1988: Zoe Young born (13
April)
1988: Renee Ammendolea born
(24 April)
1988: Eric Knecht born (29
April)
1988: Rasa Matthews born
(26 May)
1988: Tahlia Matthews (18
July)
1988: Felicity Matthews
born (12 Sept)
1988: Leland Kueser (10
Oct)
1988: Hannah Arney born (12
Oct)
1988: Dorothy Fall (nee
Rumble) died (21 Oct)
1988: Sergio Juaréz born
(31 Oct)
1988: Lucia Rooker born (11
Nov)
1988: Rowan Matthews born
(31 Dec)
1989: Clare Young born (5
Jan)
1989: James Allott born
1989: Todd Rumble born (15
Feb)
1989: Peter Carroll born
(19 April)
1989: Bronwyn Carroll born
(5 July)
1989: Horace Rumble died (1
Dec)
1989: Kalyana Matthews (21
Dec)
1989: Amy Fall born (23
Dec)
1990: Robert North (7
April)
1990: Stephanie Matthews
(20 Sept)
1990: Paul Fitzpatrick born
(25 Nov)
1991: Alison Baseden (nee
Rumble) died (25 July)
1991: Jordan Tay born (18
Sept)
1991: Courtney Alison
Kueser born (1 Nov)
1991: Christopher Highfield
born (13 Dec)
1991: Michael Carroll born
(18 Dec)
1991: Laura Carroll born
(18 Dec)
1990: Muirhead report on
Aboriginal deaths in custody (11 April)
1987: Soviet leader
Gorbachev calls for greater democracy, for perestroika (reconstruction) and
glasnost (openness) (29 Jan)
1987: 70 nations pledge to
reduce threat to Earth's Ozone layer (16 Sept)
1987: Bottom falls out of
international stock market (Black Monday, 19 Oct)
1987: USA, USSR sign treaty
to reduce arms (8 Dec)
1988: Millions homeless in
Bangladesh floods (Sep)
1988: George Bush elected
US President (8 Nov)
1988: Ethnic unrest in
Soviet world (Nov)
1988: American jet crashes
on Lockerbie, Scotland (22 Dec)
1989: Chinese troops
massacre students in Tiananmen square (4 June)
1989: Spacecraft Voyager
II passes Neptune, sends back scientific data (25 Aug)
1989: San Francisco
devastated by earthquake (19 Oct)
1989: Calls for freedom in
East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia (30 Oct)
1989: Berlin wall is broken
(10 Nov)
1990: USA, USSR agree to
cuts in strategic nuclear missiles and chemical weapons (1 June)
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
(2 Aug)
1990: East and West Germany
united after 45 years (3 Oct)
1990: USSR announces change
to a market economy (1 Nov)
1991: UN attacks Iraq (17
Jan) Gulf war armed conflict ended 28 Feb.
1991: USSR dissolved to
separate Republics. Gorbachev loses power. Yeltsin gains control of Russia
(Aug)
1992: Ariel Matthews born
(8 Oct)
1993: Joan Rumble died (4
Jun)
1993: Thomas North born (29
Sep)
1993: Brandon Kueser born
(7 Nov)
1993: Samantha Holland born
(22 Nov)
1993: Amanda Fitzpatrick
still-born (31 Dec)
1994: Penny Sheehan born
(28 Feb)
1992: Serbs in
Bosnia-Hercigovina proclaim an independent State (Jan 9). Strife still
continues in 1994.
1992: UN Security Council
sends 22,000 peacekeepers to Cambodia (Feb 28)
1992: South African
President de Klerk proposes multiracial election for interim government
1992: Thai troops fire on
democracy protestors (May 17)
1992: UN food relief in
Somalia where the nation starves (Aug)
1992: German extremists
attack refugees (Aug)
1992: French voters
narrowly favour European Union (Sept 20)
1992: Bill Clinton wins US
Presidential election (Nov 3)
1992: Indonesian
Earthquake, Tidal wave, kills 2500 (Dec 12)
1994: South Africa
multiracial democratic elections (May 2)
1996: Christian Warren born
(23rd May)