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Timeline of Adelaide history

Timeline of Adelaide history

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This is a timeline of Adelaide history.

Prior to 1800s

1800s

1830s

1840s

  • 1840: The first portion of Government House is completed, becoming the first in Australia. The Corporation of Adelaide is founded as the first municipal authority in Australia, and James Hurtle Fisher is elected mayor. An agricultural show, which will become the Royal Adelaide Show, is first held in the yard of Fordham's Hotel in Grenfell Street.
  • 1841: Construction begins of Adelaide Gaol, and the first section is completed. The Adelaide Hospital (later Royal) is opened.
  • 1843: The first Legislative Council building is opened on North Terrace.
  • 1844: 22 April: Intervention of the police in a dispute between the Kaurna and Moorundie in the West Parklands and destruction of the aboriginal weapons. Considered the end-point of Kaurna culture in Adelaide.
  • 1845: 2 January: Death by tuberculosis in Adelaide of Mullawirraburka, known as "King John", Kaurna elder who learned English, taught aboriginal lore and helped the early colonists.
  • 1844: The colonial Government takes control of the Corporation of Adelaide.
  • 1847: St Peter's College is established. Pulteney Grammar School is established.
  • 1848: The Savings Bank of South Australia begins trading from a room in Gawler Place.
  • 1849: City Commissioners are nominated to manage Adelaide.

1850s

  • 1850: G. P. Harris and J. C. Lanyon, the forerunner to Harris Scarfe, opens on Hindley Street.
  • 1851: Responsible Government is introduced to South Australia, enfranchising wealthy male colonists.
  • 1852: The Corporation of Adelaide is reconstituted and James Hurtle Fisher again becomes mayor. The first overland transport of gold arrives in Adelaide.
  • 1853: The first four local governing bodies in South Australia (apart from the Corporation of Adelaide) established as the district councils of Mitcham, East Torrens, Onkaparinga and Hindmarsh, following the passing of the 1852 'Act to appoint District Councils'.[2]
  • 1853: Philosophical Society of Adelaide founded (later becoming the Royal Society of South Australia).
  • 1855: Private telegraph line Adelaide–Port Adelaide installed by James Macgeorge
  • 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.
  • 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 between Adelaide and Gawler was opened.
  • 1858: The Melbourne–Adelaide telegraph line is opened.
  • 1859: 3–8 February: devastating fires in the Adelaide Hills around Cox's Creek near Bridgewater.
  • 1859: A jetty more than 350 metres in length is constructed at Glenelg. It has a wooden lighthouse at its end, which will later be destroyed by fire.
  • 1859: Norwood Town Hall was built on The Parade at Norwood. It was the first town hall in South Australia.

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

  • 1890: Adelaide's first public statue, Venus, is unveiled on North Terrace.
  • 1893: The Australian Association for the Advancement of Science meets in Adelaide – credit is universally accorded to Colonel Light for his selection of the site and for the design of Adelaide.
  • 1894: 'Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894, the world's second Act granting women suffrage and the first granting women the right to stand for parliament is passed in Parliament House on North Terrace.
  • 1895: 24 July: Major fire at Menz Confectionery, Wakefield Street opposite fire station[10]
  • 1896: Moving pictures are shown for first time in South Australia at Theatre Royal on Hindley Street. Happy Valley Reservoir is opened.
  • 1899: The South Australian contingent left Adelaide for the Second Boer War.

1900s

Early 1900s

1910s

  • 1910: 16 November: Major fire at Genders Building, Grenfell Street (on Hindmarsh Square corner)[15]
  • 1912: The Verco Building, an early 'skyscraper', is built on North Terrace.
  • 1913: The first metropolitan abattoir opens.
  • 1913: 23 November: Major fire at Lion Timber Mills, Franklin Street[16]
  • 1914: Planting of first memorial to the Great War, the Wattle Day League War Memorial Oak.
  • 1915: Australasia's first national Gallipoli Memorial established in the Adelaide Park Lands, 7 September 1915 – the Australian Wattle Day League's Gallipoli Memorial Wattle Grove with its centrepiece 'Australasian Soldiers Dardanelles 25 April 1915' obelisk (now known as the Dardanelles Cenotaph)
  • 1915: Liquor bars close at 6 pm following a referendum
  • 1917: German private schools are closed. The first trains travel to Perth following completion of the East-West continental railway.
  • 1919: 2 February: Major fire at W. H. Burford & Sons' soap and candle factory, Sturt Street[17]
  • 1919: Mayor Charles Richmond Glover becomes the first Lord Mayor.

1920s

1930s

1940s

  • 1940: Birkenhead Bridge opened. Second industry rapidly expanded throughout Adelaide region and South Australia at large as the war-effort intensified.
  • 1940: 21 October: Major fire at Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co., Flinders Street[28]
  • 1942: Rationing of tea and clothing introduced. Racesport and bookmaking banned.
  • 1943: Rationing of butter introduced. Racing re-allowed.
  • 1944: Rationing of meat introduced.
  • 1945: Gas and electricity restrictions imposed.
  • 1947: Orchards ripped up following discovery of fruit fly in the metropolitan area.
  • 1948: 2 March: Major fire at Charles Moore & Company's retail store, Victoria Square[29]
  • 1948: Glenelg jetty destroyed and widespread damage caused by severe storms. Clothing and meat rationing abolished. Holden began production.

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2000s

2010s

See also

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Further reading

  • Gargett, Kathyrn; Marsden, Susan (1996). Adelaide: A Brief History. State History Centre, History Trust of South Australia in association with Adelaide City Council. pp. 40–42. ISBN 0-7308-0116-0.
  • Whitelock, Derek (2000). Adelaide: A Sense of Difference. Kew: Australian Scholarly Publishing. pp. 393–405. ISBN 0-87560-657-1.
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