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This article details the history of Adelaide from the first human activity in the region to the 20th century. Adelaide is a planned city founded in 1836 and the capital of South Australia . Aboriginal settlement
1844: The colonial Government takes control of the Corporation of Adelaide. 1845: Copper is discovered at Burra. 1845: Port Pirie founded on the upper Spencer Gulf. 1846: John Ainsworth Horrocks dies while exploring land to the northwest of Lake Torrens. 1847: St Peter's College established. 1848: Pulteney Grammar School established.
Angelique's Isle is a 2018 Canadian historical drama film, directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Michelle Derosier. [2] Based on a true story set in 1845, the film stars Julia Jones as Angelique Mott, an Anishinaabe woman who accompanies her voyageur husband Charlie (Charlie Carrick) on an expedition to search for potential mining sites during the Copper Rush, only for the couple to be ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2012) This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. This is a List of films about Australian history. Prior to European settlement Ten Canoes (2007) Early European settlement The Birth of White Australia (1928) Heritage (1935) Botany Bay (1953) Convicts For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 ...
Thomas also published the weekly Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record (10 December 1839 – 18 May 1842). John Stephens, who had in 1843 founded The Adelaide Observer, in 1845 purchased The Register. [9] Anthony Forster became part owner in 1848; With the death of Stephens in 1850, his share was taken over by John Taylor. [10]
Port Pirie was founded in 1845. Copper was discovered near Kapunda in 1842. In 1845 even larger deposits of copper were discovered at Burra which brought wealth to the Adelaide shopkeepers who invested in the mine. John Ridley invented a reaping machine in 1843 which changed farming methods throughout South Australia and the nation at large.
At its time of establishment, Adelaide's (and Australia's) first mayor, James Hurtle Fisher, was elected. [43] However, the new corporation suffered financial woes, after several of its actions were unauthorised or reversed by the British government, leading to considerable debt and, so it wound up as insolvent in 1843.
Considered the end-point of Kaurna culture in Adelaide. 1845: 2 January: Death by tuberculosis in Adelaide of Mullawirraburka, known as "King John", Kaurna elder who learned English, taught aboriginal lore and helped the early colonists. 1844: The colonial Government takes control of the Corporation of Adelaide. 1847: St Peter's College is ...