South Australia

state of Australia

23 dated entries naming South Australia, drawn from 18 separate years between 1627 CE and 2017 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

1627January 26 – The Dutch ship t Gulden Zeepaert, skippered by François Thijssen, makes the first recorded European sighting of the coast of South Australia.source

18th century

1789May 1 – George Fife Angas, English coachbuilder, businessman and politician; founder of South Australia (died 1879)source

19th century

1836July 27 – The settlement of Adelaide, South Australia, is founded.source
1836December 26 – The Crown colony of South Australia is officially proclaimed (subsequently celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day).source
1836December 28 – The Colony of South Australia is founded by Captain John Hindmarsh.source
183628 December – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.source
183816 November - The ship Bengalee arrived at Port Misery (South Australia) with a group of Prussian immigrants, the first in a large wave of 19th-century German immigration to Australia.source
18391 May – The start of Eyre's expeditions to the interior of South Australia.source
1839October 6 – William Light, British Army colonel, first Surveyor-General of South Australia (born 1786)source
1840June 18 – Maria massacre: British brigantine Maria is wrecked off South Australia. All 26 passengers and crew make it to the shore but none survive the trek to safety over the following two weeks, most being massacred by Aboriginal Australians.source
184728 December - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.source
18595 August – The passenger steamship SS Admella is shipwrecked on a submerged reef near Mount Gambier South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.source
1863July 6 – Queen Victoria issues Letters Patent, annexing to South Australia the part of the colony of New South Wales that will later become the Northern Territory.source
187222 August – The Australian Overland Telegraph Line is completed when two telegraph lines are joined at Frew's Ponds in the Northern Territory (then South Australia).source
187330 December – Elizabeth Woolcock is hanged at the Adelaide Gaol, the only woman to be executed in South Australia.source
1894December 18 – Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and the first in the world with the right to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from 1895, after decades of activism.source
189418 December - South Australia is the first colony to legislate women equal franchise with men, taking effect in 1895.source

20th century

1901January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister of Australia.source
1975South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.source
1983February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.source
1986August 6 – A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 mm of rain in a day on Sydney.source

21st century

2010October 12: Terramin Australia Ltd reported that its Algerian zinc mine will be among the six largest zinc mines in the world. The cost to construct it will be $589 million. The firm is based in Adelaide, South Australia and will take 57 months to complete its venture.source
20173 June – Two Australian women—a 21-year-old from Queensland and a 28-year-old from South Australia—are killed in a terrorist attack in London. Four Australians were also among the 48 injured.source