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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Melbourne (pronounced /ˈmel.bən/) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3.7 million (2006 estimate). Located around Port Phillip Bay in the country's south-east, Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria.

Melbourne is a major centre of commerce, industry and cultural activity. The city is often referred to as Australia's "sporting and cultural capital" and it is home to many of the nation's most significant cultural and sporting events and institutions. Melbourne is notable for its mix of Victorian and contemporary architecture, its extensive tram network and Victorian parks and gardens, and its diverse, multicultural society. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Melbourne was founded by free settlers in 1835, 47 years after the first European settlement of Australia, as a small pastoral settlement situated around the Yarra River. Transformed rapidly into a major metropolis by the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s, "Marvellous Melbourne" became Australia's largest and most important city by 1865, but was overtaken by Sydney as the largest city in Australia during the early 20th century.

Melbourne served as the capital city of Australia from the time of the new nation's Federation in 1901, until Federal Parliament moved to the new, purpose-built capital, Canberra, in 1927.

History

The area of the Yarra River and Port Phillip that is now Melbourne was first settled by the British in 1835. These settlers came from Launceston, Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land). The area was already inhabited by the indigenous Kulin people. A transaction was negotiated for 600,000 acres of land from eight Wurundjeri chiefs; this was later annulled by the New South Wales government (then governing all of eastern mainland Australia), which compensated the settlers.

In 1836, Governor Bourke declared the city the administrative capital of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, and commissioned the first plan for the Hoddle Grid in 1837. The settlement was named Melbourne in the same year after the British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire. Melbourne was declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June 1847.

The state of Victoria was established as a separate colony in 1851 with Melbourne as its capital. With the discovery of gold in Victoria in the 1850s, leading to the Victorian gold rush, Melbourne grew rapidly, providing the majority of service industries and serving as the major port for the region. The city became a major finance centre, home to several banks and to Australia's first stock exchange (founded in 1861). During the 1880s Melbourne was one of the largest cities in the British Empire. This period saw the construction of many high-rise Victorian buildings, Coffee Palaces, terrace housing, grand boulevards and gardens throughout the city. Examples of this Victorian architecture still abound in Melbourne. So impressed was journalist George Augustus Henry Sala during his visit in 1885 that he coined the phrase "Marvellous Melbourne" to describe the booming city, a phrase which stuck and is used by its locals and the media to this day.

The brash boosterism which typified Melbourne during this time came to a halt in 1891 when a world economic depression hit the city's economy, sending the finance and property industries into chaos. The effects of the depression on the city were profound, although it did continue to grow slowly during the early 20th century.

At the time of Australia's Federation on 1 January 1901, Melbourne was specified as the temporary seat of government and remained the national capital until 1927, when the Federal parliament was moved to the planned city of Canberra. The first Federal parliament was convened on 9 May 1901 in the Royal Exhibition Building.

Melbourne was the Allied Pacific Headquarters from 1942 to 1944 as General Douglas MacArthur established Australia as a launch base for Pacific operations. During World War II, Melbourne industries thrived on wartime production and the city became Australia's leading manufacturing centre. After the war, Melbourne expanded rapidly, with its growth boosted by an influx of immigrants and the prestige of hosting the Olympic Games. Australia's mining boom between 1969 and 1970 proved beneficial to Melbourne, with the headquarters of many of the major companies (BHP, Rio Tinto and many others) based in the city. Nauru's booming mineral economy fuelled several ambitious investments in Melbourne such as Nauru House. Melbourne remained Australia's business and finance capital until the late 1970s, when it began to lose this primacy to Sydney.

Melbourne experienced the worst of Victoria's economic slump between 1989 to 1992. In 1992, a newly elected Victorian government began a campaign to restore the economy with an aggressive development campaign of public works and major events centred on Melbourne and the promotion of the city as a tourist destination. Major projects included the Melbourne Museum, Federation Square, the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, Crown Casino and CityLink tollway. Other strategies included the privatisation of some of Melbourne's services including power and public transport, and a reduction in funding to public services such as health and education.

Since 1997, Melbourne has maintained significant population and employment growth. There has been substantial international investment in the city's industries and property market, and 2006 figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that since 2000 Melbourne has sustained the highest population and economic growth rate of any Australian capital city.

Birth

Matches 1 to 19 of 19

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Ahlers, Henderikus Antonius	Approximately 1947	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I398232	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Belinfante, Alfred	Thursday 07 November 1867	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118740	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Belinfante, Amy	Friday 15 September 1865	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118739	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Belinfante, Anne	Monday 02 June 1856	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118734	Veenkoloniale voorouders
5	Belinfante, Anne	Monday 01 February 1864	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118738	Veenkoloniale voorouders
6	Belinfante, David de Leon	Thursday 04 July 1872	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118742	Veenkoloniale voorouders
7	Belinfante, Emanuel Cohen	Friday 19 March 1858	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118735	Veenkoloniale voorouders
8	Belinfante, Emanuel Ralph	Thursday 03 March 1887	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118745	Veenkoloniale voorouders
9	Belinfante, Louis Joseph	Sunday 22 April 1860	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118736	Veenkoloniale voorouders
10	Belinfante, Phillip	Wednesday 09 June 1875	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118743	Veenkoloniale voorouders
11	Belinfante, Raphael	Friday 29 September 1854	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118733	Veenkoloniale voorouders
12	Belinfante, Raphael	Tuesday 24 June 1862	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118737	Veenkoloniale voorouders
13	Belinfante, Septimus de Leon	Monday 22 November 1869	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118741	Veenkoloniale voorouders
14	Fisher, Else Marie	Friday 01 March 1918	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I676742	Veenkoloniale voorouders
15	Jurgens, Alphons John Francis	Tuesday 27 March 1900	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I702097	Veenkoloniale voorouders
16	Marton, Hettie	Saturday 07 October 1893	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118747	Veenkoloniale voorouders
17	Thomas, Lilian	1872	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I671474	Veenkoloniale voorouders
18	Thomas, Theodore	1870	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I671473	Veenkoloniale voorouders
19	Wright, Edith Elizabeth	Friday 10 December 1875	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118749	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Death

Matches 1 to 16 of 16

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Belinfante, Anne	Friday 05 October 1860	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118734	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Belinfante, Anne	Saturday 27 November 1875	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118738	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Belinfante, Phillip	Monday 01 November 1875	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118743	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Belinfante, Raphael	Monday 22 October 1860	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118733	Veenkoloniale voorouders
5	Belinfante, Rebecca	Monday 17 December 1860	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118732	Veenkoloniale voorouders
6	Belinfante, Solomon	Monday 17 November 1884	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118723	Veenkoloniale voorouders
7	van Cooth, Josephus Johannes Jacobus Carolus	Saturday 11 May 1946	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I549303	Veenkoloniale voorouders
8	de Haan, Theodorus Gijsbertus	Friday 14 July 1967	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I778736	Veenkoloniale voorouders
9	van Huisstede, Leendert	1997	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I219774	Veenkoloniale voorouders
10	de Leon, Ada	Friday 04 May 1917	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I118731	Veenkoloniale voorouders
11	Scholte, Johan	Tuesday 01 November 1983	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I173282	Veenkoloniale voorouders
12	Siepel, Aaltje	Saturday 23 January 2010	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I778784	Veenkoloniale voorouders
13	Siepel, Lammert	Monday 26 December 1983	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I778782	Veenkoloniale voorouders
14	van Soest, Anna Maria	Monday 09 November 1998	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I56639	Veenkoloniale voorouders
15	Tieben, Anna Marie	Tuesday 29 September 2009	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I183906	Veenkoloniale voorouders
16	Wallert, Johannes Jan	1995	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	I682405	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Marriage

Matches 1 to 5 of 5

	Family	Marriage		Family ID	Tree
1	Armstrong / Belinfante	Saturday 14 May 1932	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F48624	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Belinfante / Redmond	Tuesday 31 December 1895	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F48621	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Belinfante / Wright	Wednesday 05 April 1899	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F48617	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Cooth / Mason	Wednesday 16 July 1902	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F212555	Veenkoloniale voorouders
5	Nicholl / Belinfante	Wednesday 29 October 1890	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	F48619	Veenkoloniale voorouders