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A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1856 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. 14 January — J. F. Archibald, journalist and publisher (died 1919) [1]
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 ...
The Adelaide Chronicle (full title: The Adelaide Chronicle, and South Australian Literary Record) was an early publication in Adelaide, the capital of the then province of South Australia. It was published between 1839 (185 years ago) ( 1839 ) and 1842 (182 years ago) ( 1842 ) , when it ceased publication as a result of the economic depression ...
William Charles Rigby (March 1834 – 14 July 1913) [1] was born in London.His parents had intended for him the life of a hatter, but he was attracted to bookselling, so was apprenticed to Parker & Sons of London and Oxford, [2] where George Robertson and Samuel Mullen (both became bookshop owners in Melbourne) were fellow workers.
The next important piece of legislation affecting SLSA was the 1939 number 44 Libraries and Institutes Act, which repealed the Public library, Museum and Art Gallery and Institutes Act and separated the Public Library from the (newly named) Art Gallery of South Australia and South Australian Museum, established its own board and changed its name to the Public Library of South Australia.
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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