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1836: Letters Patent erect and establish the Province of South Australia on 19 February 1836. It was to be Australia's second free colony and the first experiment of the Wakefieldian systematic colonization theory. 1836: Tent city set up by the South Australian Company on the site now known as Kingscote on Kangaroo Island.
South Australia becomes first state to reform abortion laws. 1971: Fluoridation of water supply commences. 1973: State Election: The Labor Party, led by Don Dunstan, holds onto government. 1973: Modbury Hospital opens. 1973: Two children disappear from Adelaide Oval and are never seen again. 1973: Federal Referendum - South Australia votes:
John Ridley invented a reaping machine in 1843 which changed farming methods throughout South Australia and the nation at large. By 1843, 93 km 2 (36 sq mi) of land was growing wheat (contrasted with 0.08 km 2, 0.031 sq mi in 1838). Toward the end of the century South Australia became known as the "granary of Australia".
On 31 July 1838, the changes were brought into law by "An act to amend an act of the fourth and fifth years of his late majesty empowering his majesty to erect South Australia into a British province or provinces" (short name ascribed by the National Library of Australia: South Australia Government Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 60). [5]
"Bound for South Australia: Passenger lists 1836-1851". State Library of South Australia. Virtually every passenger list for the 3000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851, plus a host of additional information (individual names, ages, occupations, etc). Ing, Heidi (2020). South Australia's First Expedition ...
British colonisation of South Australia describes the planning and establishment of the colony of South Australia by the British government, covering the period from 1829, when the idea was raised by the then-imprisoned Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to 1842, when the South Australia Act 1842 changed the form of government to a Crown colony.
It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into The Advertiser almost a century later in February 1931. The newspaper was the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia.
14 March – HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, leaves Australia. 27 May – At least 7 Aboriginal are killed by Major Thomas Mitchell and his men in his third expedition as Surveyor General of New South Wales in the Mount Dispersion massacre. 29 July – Church Act enacted