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| 1 | 1830 | - 1830: Captain Charles Sturt travels to the mouth of the Murray River in a whale boat.
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| 2 | 1836 | - 1836: Site for Adelaide chosen by Colonel William Light beside the River Torrens.
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| 3 | 1837 | - 1837: Colonel Light completes survey of Adelaide.
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| 4 | 1838 | - 1838: The first Australian police force is formed in Adelaide, the South Australia Police.
- 1838: First German immigrants arrive and settle in Adelaide and surrounds.
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| 5 | 1839 | - 1839: The first road in South Australia, Port Road is opened.
- 1839: Edward John Eyre begins his explorations of the Flinders Ranges and beyond.
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1842 | - 1842: Copper is discovered at Kapunda.
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| 8 | 1844 | - 1844: The colonial Government takes control of the Corporation of Adelaide.
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| 9 | 1845 | - 1845: Copper is discovered at Burra.
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| 10 | 1848 | - Mar 1848: The Savings Bank of South Australia, began trading with the first depositor by a Seikh.
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| 11 | 1850 | - 1850: The forerunner to Harris Scarfe, G. P. Harris and J. C. Lanyon, opened on Hindley Street.
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| 12 | 1852 | - 1852: The Corporation of Adelaide is reconstituted.
- 1852: First transport of gold overland arrived in Adelaide.
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| 13 | 1854 | - 1854: The township of Port Augusta at the head of Spencer Gulf is surveyed.
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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 1858 | - 1858: The first edition of The Advertiser newspaper is published.
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| 16 | 1859 | - 1859: Shipwreck of SS Admella. 89 dead. Worst Sth Austalian maritime disaster to this day .
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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 1862 | - 1862: John McDouall Stuart finally gets to the northern coast of Australia from Adelaide.
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| 19 | 1864 | - 1864: Tolstoy writes War and Peace
- 7 May 1864: 'City of Adelaide' is launched.
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| 20 | 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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| 21 | 1866 | - 1866: The Italianate Adelaide Town Hall opened.
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1827 - 1866 (38 years)
