Federation of Australia
Six colonies unite into one nation
On 1 January 1901 six British colonies united as the Commonwealth of Australia, proclaimed in Sydney's Centennial Park. Edmund Barton became the first prime minister. Australia gained a common constitution and parliament as a dominion of the British Empire.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 13 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 17 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 19 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 15 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 12 years earlier
- 1901 First Nobel Prizes — same year
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 4 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 6 years earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 4 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 7 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 16 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 16 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 4 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 7 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 7 years later
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 14 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 15 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 16 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 16 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 15 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 4 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 3 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 18 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 16 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 7 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 7 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 5 years earlier
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 25 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 22 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 2 years later
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 5 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 82)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 73)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 67)
- Thomas Edison (aged 54)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 45)
- Marie Curie (aged 34)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 32)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 31)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 30)
- Winston Churchill (aged 27)