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| 1 | 1852 | - 1852: The Corporation of Adelaide is reconstituted.
- 1852: First transport of gold overland arrived in Adelaide.
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| 2 | 1854 | - 1854: The township of Port Augusta at the head of Spencer Gulf is surveyed.
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1858 | - 1858: The first edition of The Advertiser newspaper is published.
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| 5 | 1859 | - 1859: Shipwreck of SS Admella. 89 dead. Worst Sth Austalian maritime disaster to this day .
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1862 | - 1862: John McDouall Stuart finally gets to the northern coast of Australia from Adelaide.
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| 8 | 1864 | - 1864: Tolstoy writes War and Peace
- 7 May 1864: 'City of Adelaide' is launched.
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1866 | - 1866: The Italianate Adelaide Town Hall opened.
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| 11 | 1868 | - 1868: End of convict transportation to Australia with final tally of some 160,000.
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1871 | - 1871: North German and South German confederations form a united Germany in 1871.
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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 1873 | - 1873: First cricket match played at Adelaide Oval.
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| 17 | 1874 | - 1874: The Adelaide Oval is officially opened.
- 1874: The University of Adelaide founded.
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1852 - 1874 (21 years)
