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The wool industry was the basis of South Australia's economy for the first few years, with the first wool auction held in Adelaide in 1840. [39] [40] The settlers were mostly British, but some German settlers, mainly "Old Lutherans", also emigrated in the early years. The first large group of Germans arrived in 1838, with the financial ...
David Unaipon who was to become a preacher and Australia's first Aboriginal author was born at Point McLeay Mission in South Australia in 1872. The son of Australia's first Aboriginal pastor, he is today honoured on the Australian $50 note. Saint Mary Mackillop co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in rural South Australia in ...
1627: First recorded European sighting of the South Australian coast. 1802: South Australian coastline mapped by Matthew Flinders und Nicolas Baudin. 1802 (Circa): Unofficial settlement of Kangaroo Island by sealers. 1830: Captain Charles Sturt travels to the mouth of the Murray River in a whale boat.
They developed a settlement at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, in July 1836, but when farming proved unviable, both the settlement and the Company's operations were moved to the mainland. [4] Four of the ships were sent by the South Australian Company, three were chartered by the Colonization Commission, and the other two were chartered privately.
Traders of the United East India Company (VOC), under the command of Jan van Riebeeck, were the first people to establish a European colony in South Africa. The Cape settlement was built by them in 1652 as a re-supply point and way-station for United East India Company vessels on their way back and forth between the Netherlands and Batavia ...
Layers dating from between 250,000 and 140,000 years ago in the same cave contained tools of the Levallois type which could put the date of the first migration even earlier if the tools can be associated with the modern human jawbone finds. [6] [7] [8] Africa, Southern Africa: South Africa: 200–110: Klasies River Caves, population genetics
[1] [2] South Africa's first known inhabitants have been collectively referred to as the Khoisan, the Khoekhoe and the San. Starting in about 400 AD, these groups were then joined by the Bantu ethnic groups who migrated from Western and Central Africa during what is known as the Bantu expansion. These Bantu groups were mainly limited to the ...
5000 - 3500 BC: First European proto-script - the Old European script (Danubian script). [183] [184] [185] 3850 - 3600 BC: Malta's Temple period begins. 3500 BC: First European civilization, Minoan civilization, begins on Crete. 3000 BC: Indo-Europeans begin a large-scale settlement of the continent. 2500 BC: Stonehenge is constructed.