Adelaide, South Australia

South Australia. Photo taken arriving from the Sunshine Coast, on a Jetstar Airbus A320.

49,000 years before present: In the northern Flinders Ranges at Warratyi indigenous people settled in the oldest known human site to date in SA.

1836: 28 December: Governor John Hindmarsh and settlers arrived aboard the Buffalo, and the province of South Australia was proclaimed.
1831: Collet Barker surveyed Gulf St Vincent, and climbed Mount Lofty.
1833: The South Australian Association was formed in Britain to establish a colony. The next year the South Australia Colonisation Act passed in Britain to establish a free-settler colony.
1847: The first Barossa Valley winery was established at Jacob’s Creek.
Extracts from The highs and lows of South Australia’s history, The Advertiser December 2016