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1856: The South Australian Institute is founded, from which will derive the State Library, State Museum and Art Gallery. 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.
This timeline of Australian television lists important station launches, programs, major television events, and technological advancements that have significantly changed the forms of broadcasting available to viewers of television in Australia. The history of television in Australia can be traced back to an announcement from the Menzies ...
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
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]
7 February – Tasmanian Electoral Act introduced the secret ballot, which was known elsewhere, in particular in the United States as the "Australian ballot" 19 March – The Electoral Act 1856 introduced the secret ballot in Victoria; 2 April – South Australia introduced the secret ballot
Frank Rowland Bee (25 April 1887 [9] – 8 August 1946 [10]) "Piccolo Pete", street musician and vagrant in Adelaide. [11] Lucy Sarah Bee (1 September 1860 – 1939) married Horace H. Allen on 15 November 1883, lived in Perth. Of at least four sisters, she was the sole survivor to adulthood; photograph with brother Frank in Crompton Collection ...
1856: The South Australian Institute, from which the State Library, State Museum and Art Gallery derived, is founded. 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.
The cable-supported the simultaneous live broadcast of the 5th test of the 1962–63 Ashes series to Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne – a major milestone in Australian television history. [42] The introduction of satellite broadcasting in the late 1960s allowed news stories and programs to be accessed from around the world. The first live ...