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| 1 | 1840 | - 1840: The first portion of Government House is completed, becoming the first in Australia.
- 1840: All 26 survivors of the shipwreck Maria are murdered by Aboriginals along Coorong.
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| 2 | 1842 | - 1842: Copper is discovered at Kapunda.
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| 3 | 1844 | - 1844: The colonial Government takes control of the Corporation of Adelaide.
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| 4 | 1845 | - 1845: Copper is discovered at Burra.
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| 5 | 1848 | - Mar 1848: The Savings Bank of South Australia, began trading with the first depositor by a Seikh.
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| 6 | 1850 | - 1850: The forerunner to Harris Scarfe, G. P. Harris and J. C. Lanyon, opened on Hindley Street.
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| 7 | 1852 | - 1852: The Corporation of Adelaide is reconstituted.
- 1852: First transport of gold overland arrived in Adelaide.
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| 8 | 1854 | - 1854: The township of Port Augusta at the head of Spencer Gulf is surveyed.
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| 9 | 1856 | - 1856: South Australian Institute is founded.
- 1856: First 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.
- 1856: Holden begins business as J.A Holden & Co, saddlery business, Adelaide, Sth Australia
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| 10 | 1858 | - 1858: The first edition of The Advertiser newspaper is published.
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| 11 | 1859 | - 1859: Shipwreck of SS Admella. 89 dead. Worst Sth Austalian maritime disaster to this day .
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| 12 | 1861 | - 1861: Copper discovered at Moonta, on the Yorke Peninsula.
- 1861: Explorers Burke & Wills disappear in outback trying to find a route to northern coast.
- 4 Mar 1861: Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America.
- 12 Apr 1861: Confederates open fire in Charleston, South Carolina. The American Civil War begins.
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| 13 | 1862 | - 1862: John McDouall Stuart finally gets to the northern coast of Australia from Adelaide.
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| 14 | 1864 | - 1864: Tolstoy writes War and Peace
- 7 May 1864: 'City of Adelaide' is launched.
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| 15 | 1865 | - 1865: Bank of Adelaide founded.
- 1865: Bushranger Mad Dog Daniel Morgan killed; bushranger Ben Hall killed.
- 14 Apr 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater.
- 26 May 1865: Last fighting of the American Civil War takes place.
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| 16 | 1866 | - 1866: The Italianate Adelaide Town Hall opened.
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| 17 | 1868 | - 1868: End of convict transportation to Australia with final tally of some 160,000.
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| 18 | 1869 | - 1869: The City Market (later Central) opened on Grote Street.
- 1869: Suez Canal opens.
- 22 Nov 1869: The clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton.
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| 19 | 1870 | - 1870: Bushranger Capt Thunderbolt shot by troopers.
- 1870: Jules Vernes 20,000 leagues under the sea is written.
- 1870: Wagners Die Walkure is written.
- 1870: George Henry Michell sets up a wool-scouring operation in Undalya.
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| 20 | 1871 | - 1871: North German and South German confederations form a united Germany in 1871.
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| 21 | 1872 | - 1872: Todds overland telegraph line laid from Adelaide to the north coast.
- 1872: First wire communications between Europe and Australia achieved.
- 1872: Adelaide GPO opens and Adelaide becomes first Australian capital linked to London.
- 27 Mar 1872: Fiendly rival Yatala goes aground near Cape Gris-Nez.
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| 22 | 1873 | - 1873: First cricket match played at Adelaide Oval.
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| 23 | 1874 | - 1874: The Adelaide Oval is officially opened.
- 1874: The University of Adelaide founded.
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| 24 | 1876 | - 14 Feb 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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| 25 | 1879 | - 22 Oct 1879: Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
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| 26 | 1880 | - 20 Jan 1880: Bushranger Capt Moonlites brief career ends in him being hanged in 1880.
- 11 Nov 1880: Bushranger Ned Kelly hanged for murder of Mounted Constable Thomas Lonigan.
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| 27 | 1881 | - 1881: Drought ruins thousands of farmers; Goyders Line recognised as agricultural limit.
- 18 Jun 1881: The Art Gallery of South Australia opened.
- 23 Jul 1881: Coopers Brewery brews its first ale in its newly
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| 28 | 1882 | - 1882: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commencedin Adelaide.
- 20 Aug 1882: Debut of Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture
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| 29 | 1884 | - 1884: Largs Bay Fort opens.
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| 30 | 1887 | - 1887: Stock Exchange of Adelaide forms.
- 1887: The City of Adelaide was sold to Dover coal merchant Charles Mowll in 1887.
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| 31 | 1888 | - 1888: City of Adelaide set to work on North Atlantic Timber Trade.
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Abt 1840 - 1890 (~ 50 years)
