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Timeline of Adelaide history

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This is a timeline of Adelaide history.

Prior to 1800s

1800s

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

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1900s

Early 1900s

1910s

  • 1910: 16 November: Major fire at Genders Building, Grenfell Street (on Hindmarsh Square corner)[15]
  • 1912: The Verco Building, an early 'skyscraper', is built on North Terrace.
  • 1913
    • The first metropolitan abattoir opens.
    • 23 November: Major fire at Lion Timber Mills, Franklin Street[16]
  • 1914: Planting of first memorial to the Great War, the Wattle Day League War Memorial Oak.
  • 1915
    • Australasia's first national Gallipoli Memorial established in the Adelaide Park Lands, 7 September 1915 – the Australian Wattle Day League's Gallipoli Memorial Wattle Grove with its centrepiece 'Australasian Soldiers Dardanelles 25 April 1915' obelisk (now known as the Dardanelles Cenotaph)
    • Liquor bars close at 6 pm following a referendum
  • 1917: German private schools are closed. The first trains travel to Perth following completion of the East-West continental railway.
  • 1919

1920s

1930s

1940s

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North Terrace, Adelaide, 1947 by Max Dupain
  • 1942: Rationing of tea and clothing introduced. Racesport and bookmaking banned.
  • 1943: Rationing of butter introduced. Racing re-allowed.
  • 1944
    • Rationing of meat introduced.
    • Max Harris convicted of "indecent advertisements for publishing Ern Malley poems.[29]
  • 1945: Gas and electricity restrictions imposed.
  • 1947: Orchards ripped up following discovery of fruit fly in the metropolitan area.
  • 1948

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

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2000s

2000s

2010s

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References

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