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The Australian Federation Flag, also known as the New South Wales Ensign, was the result of an 1830s attempt to create a flag to represent Australia as a nation. Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria...
 Australian Federation Flag The flag was proposed in 1831 in the NSW Calendar and Post Office Gazette by Captain Jack Nicholson, Sydney's Harbour Master, who also designed it. The flag was based on the Colonial Flag of 1823, which Captain Nicholson helped design. Like the Colonial Flag, the Federation Flag features a combination of the Union Jack and the Southern Cross, but the cross is blue, not red, and there are five stars, not four. The flag's appearanced varied greatly depending on where it was made: different manufacturers produced Federation Flags with darker or lighter shades of blue for the cross background; using five-pointed stars instead of eight; or positioning the stars in different places. The flag looks similar to the Eureka Flag, which was designed in 1854, and some expert historans have advanced the view it was based on earlier designs used in the colonies including the Federation flag. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (873x437, 8 KB) New South Wales Ensign / Australian Federation Flag, 1831 drawn by de:Benutzer:Kookburra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Federation Flag ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (873x437, 8 KB) New South Wales Ensign / Australian Federation Flag, 1831 drawn by de:Benutzer:Kookburra File links The following pages link to this file: Australian Federation Flag ...
1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest working natural harbour in the world. ...
The National Colonial Flag for Australia (1823/24) was the forerunner of the many Australian flag designs which featured the Southern Cross and Union Flag in combination. ...
Flag Ratio: 1:2 The Union Flag or Union Jack is the flag most commonly associated with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and was also used throughout the former British Empire. ...
Crux, being Latin for cross, commonly known as the Southern Cross (in contrast to the Northern Cross), is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations, but also one of the most famous. ...
The Eureka Flag The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time on Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Australia as a symbol of the resistance of the gold miners during the Eureka Stockade rebellion. ...
1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Federation Flag proved immensely popular, and was widely used on the East Coast of Australia for over 70 years. It was never officially adopted, but was flown unofficially by Federation-minded Australians and used as a makeshift ensign by the merchant marine. In 1884 Lord Derby of the Colonial Office banned the use of the Flag at sea, possibly because of its similarity to the British White Ensign. 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...
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The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the various British colonies. ...
The Blue Ensign. ...
 Photograph of an old (probably 19th Century) Federation Flag. In the 1880s and early 1890s it was used as a symbol of the political movement towards Federation, with groups like the Australian Natives Association and the Australian Federation League using it to promote national consciousness of their push for Federation, under the slogan "One People, One Destiny, One Flag". Image File history File links Australian War Memorial (I think) photograph of the Australian Federation Flag. ...
Image File history File links Australian War Memorial (I think) photograph of the Australian Federation Flag. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
// Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federated on 1 January 1901, to form the Commonwealth of Australia, of which they became component states. ...
The Australian Natives Association (ANA), a mutual society was founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871. ...
The flag was a favourite of Australia's first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton, who asked that a variant be considered for approval along with the competition-winning[1] Blue Ensign. The Colonial Office rejected the Federation Flag, issuing Barton a mild rebuke[2]. The Australian government received approval to fly the Blue Ensign in 1903, but the Australian Federation Flag was still being flown by Australian citizens as late as the 1920s. The current (25th) Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (sitting, fifth from left), with his Cabinet, 1999 The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Rt Hon Edmund Barton Sir Edmund Barton (January 18, 1849 - January 7, 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. ...
Flag ratio: 1:2 The flag of Australia is blue with the flag of the United Kingdom (or Union Flag) in the canton (the upper hoist quarter), and a large seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star (six points representing the six original states and one point for the...
This article describes the national government of Australia. ...
1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ...
Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly...
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