O'Carroll Family Timeline

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    Family History

  • Death of Queen Victoria

  • Boer War Ends

  • 1st All Black Team

  • NZ becomes a Dominion

  • Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic nucleus

  • Waterfront strike in Auckland and Wellington

  • NZ Troops occupy German Samoa WW1

  • NZ Forces take part ion Gallipoli campaign

  • Battle of the Somme

  • Russian Revolution

  • Spanish Flu Pandemic

  • NZ women eligible for election to Parliament

  • Anzac Day established

  • Beginning of the Great Depression

  • Unemployment riots in Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch

  • First NZ Labour Government

  • Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) National Party Formed

  • Japanese invasion of china Free milk in schools introduced

  • German Invasion of Poland Maori Battalion formed

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbour, heavy NZ losses in Battle for Crete

  • German Invasion of France, Battle of Britain, NZ Troops arrive in Egypt