Key events and issues : 1852-1883

Click on a year below to see selected details of The Foundation of South Australia 1851-1883: Key events and issues.

1850 | 1851 | 1852 | 1853 | 1854 | 1855 | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 |

1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |

1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 |

1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883

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SA Memory Timeline for other significant events in South Australia.

South Australiana: Sources a comprehensive list of websites, published and non-published sources for South Australiana materials.

Top right of this page Jesse Young's drawing shows Ernest Giles's expedition of 1875.

Click on 'view details' below to explore resources, including photographs and daguerreotypes, first-hand accounts in diaries and letters, newspaper reports, artistic impressions of Adelaide and the expanding townships, maps and archival records. Displayed items illustrate the effects of the gold rush, exploration, mining developments... and more.