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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
1856: Government telegraph line Adelaide–Port Adelaide installed by Charles Todd; 1856: Steam railway between Adelaide and Port Adelaide opened. 1856: South Australian Society of Arts formed. 1857: Adelaide Botanic Gardens opens at today's site in the Park Lands off North Terrace with George William Francis as the first director. Railway ...
Finniss Street, in North Adelaide was one of the dozens of street names chosen by the Street Naming Committee in around 1840, to commemorate people of importance to the founding of Adelaide. Boyle Street and Finniss Street in the Adelaide suburbs of Marion and Oaklands Park were named in about 1856. [21]
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2016) Old Government House, Parramatta, circa 1799 Old Military Barracks, now Legislative Assembly Chambers, Kingston, Norfolk Island Historic Ross Bridge with the Uniting Church in the background This is primarily a list of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement. The article also contains information on ...
Front page of Vol 1, No 2 (3 June 1837) of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register.. The Register was conceived by Robert Thomas, a law stationer, who had purchased for his family 134 acres (54 ha) of land in the proposed South Australian province after being impressed by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. [2]
1856: Government telegraph line and steam railway between Adelaide and Port Adelaide opened. 1856: South Australia becomes one of the first places in the world to enact the Secret Ballot. 1857: Adelaide Botanic Garden opened at today's site in the Parklands at the corner of North and East Terraces. 1858: Melbourne-Adelaide telegraph line opened.
The History of South Australia: From Its Foundation to the Year of Its Jubilee: Volume I.]. A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook (posted 2013). With much material gathered by George Fife Angas used as the basis of this history. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Gouger, Robert (1898). Hodder, Edwin (ed.).
Adelaide Observer. Vol. LIII, no. 2, 882. 26 December 1896. p. 1 (Illustrated Supplement) – via National Library of Australia. Lists all passengers and crew on all ships. "Tam O'Shanter passenger list". Bound for South Australia.