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| 1 | 1879 | - 22 Oct 1879: Thomas Edison invents incandescent light
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1882 | - 1882: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commencedin Adelaide.
- 20 Aug 1882: Debut of Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture
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| 5 | 1884 | - 1884: Largs Bay Fort opens.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1888 | - 1888: City of Adelaide set to work on North Atlantic Timber Trade.
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| 8 | 1893 | - 9 Sep 1893: City of Adelaide leaves Glasgow under tow to Southampton.
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| 9 | 1894 | - 1894: Worlds 2nd Act granting women suffrage passed in Parliament House, Adelaide.
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| 10 | 1896 | - 1896: Moving pictures shown for first time in South Australia at Theatre Royal.
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| 11 | 1899 | - 1899: South Australian contingent leaves Adelaide for the Second Boer War.
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| 12 | 1900 | - 1900: First electricity station opened in South Australia at Grenfell Street.
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| 13 | 1901 | - 1 Jan 1901: Adelaide became a state capital upon establishment of Commonwealth of Australia.
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| 14 | 1904 | - 1904: State Flag of South Australia is officially adopted.
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| 15 | 1908 | - 1908: Adelaides Outer Harbor opens.
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| 16 | 1919 | - 1919: Adelaide awarded official city status and Mayor became Lord Mayor.
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| 17 | 1923 | - 1923: Sold to the Admiralty
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| 18 | 1925 | - 1 May 1925: Moved to Greenock and commissioned as a Naval Drill Ship.
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| 19 | 1947 | - 1947: Admiralty presents her to the R.N.V.R. Club (Scotland) who used her as a club rooms.
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| 20 | 1978 | - 1978: Deck is caught under wharf on a rising tide and City of Adelaide is partialy flooded.
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| 21 | 1984 | - 1984: Being used as clubrooms by the RNVR Club.
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| 22 | 1989 | - 1989: Being used as clubrooms by the RNVR Club.
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| 23 | 1990 | - 1990: Sold by the R.N.V.R. Club to the Clyde Ship Trust for
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| 24 | 1991 | - 1991: Sank at moorings in Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
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| 25 | 1992 | - 1992: Identified as part of the National [U.K.] Historic Ships Core Collection.
- 1992: City of Adelaide becomes the property of the Scottish National Maritime Museum.
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| 26 | 2000 | - 2000: To raise funds, Scottish Maritime Museum offers the City of Adelaide for sale.
- 24 May 2000: Scottish Maritime Museum apply to demolish City of Adelaide.
- 18 Jul 2000: Action group is set up in Adelaide.
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| 27 | 2001 | - 26 Feb 2001: North Ayrshire Council refused the demolition.
- 19 Sep 2001: HRH the Duke of Edinburgh convenes a conference to discuss the City of Adelaide.
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| 28 | 2003 | - 2003: Mike Edwards comes up with a plan for the clipper and is granted first right of refusal.
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| 29 | 2005 | - 2005: Owners of the slipway terminate the Scottish Maritime Museum
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| 30 | 2006 | - 2006: Mike Edwards advises that he will not be taking his option to acquire City of Adelaide.
- 11 May 2006: The Scottish Maritime Museum again applies to Council to demolish the ship.
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| 31 | 2007 | - 18 Apr 2007: World Heritage Day.
- 18 Apr 2007: North Ayrshire Council advises approval of deconstruction of the
- 1 May 2007: Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Preservation Trust forms.
- 21 May 2007: Devastating fire sweeps through the Cutty Sark.
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