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South Australia

state of Australia

15 dated entries naming South Australia, drawn from 13 separate years between 1627 CE and 1986 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 (d. 1879)source

19th century

  • 1826June 24 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)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
  • 1836July 27 – The settlement of Adelaide, South Australia, is founded.source
  • 1839October 6 – William Light, British Army colonel, first Surveyor-General of South Australia (b. 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
  • 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
  • 1879May 15 – George Fife Angas, English coachbuilder, businessman and politician, founder of South Australia (b. 1789)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

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 in of rain in a day on Sydney.source

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