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Adelaide Festival of the Arts
This festival is widely recognised as one of the great international arts festivals, while its accompanying Writers’ Week is the…
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Armistice Day 1918
Huge crowds gathered on the streets of Adelaide on 11 November 1918 to celebrate the armistice of the First World…
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Ash Wednesday
The bushfires of 16 February 1983 had a devastating impact on many South Australians.
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Bay to Birdwood
Standing on the side of the road, waving at a cavalcade of heritage vehicles parading past is an experience many…
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Beef Riot
In January 1931, during the Great Depression, more than 1000 unemployed men clashed with police in protest at the replacement…
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Boer War
The Boer War was the first war in which South Australians fought overseas.
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Bombing of Hiroshima
In the dying days of the Second World War, a war-weary United States dropped its atomic bomb, nick-named ‘Little Boy’,…
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Centenary Celebrations 1936
From sporting events to flower festivals and patriotic displays presented by thousands of children, South Australia’s Centenary Celebrations emphasised the…
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Christmas Pageant
One of the largest pageants in the world, come one, come all to Adelaide’s famous Christmas Pageant!
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Duncan Case
George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown…
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Federation
Throughout the 1890s South Australia was at the forefront of the Federation movement that created the Commonwealth of Australia from…
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First aerial ascent
American aeronaut Thomas Gale made South Australia’s first successful aerial ascent in June 1871
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First World War
The tragedy of war was compounded by disturbance on the homefront in wartime and post-war reconstruction activities.
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Flower Day
Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers…
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Henley-on-Torrens Regatta
In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens…
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Hindley Street riot
Violence and election irregularities marred the process when, in 1855, South Australians got their first chance to elect politicians drawn…
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Islamic Festivals in 1890s Adelaide
The Adelaide Mosque, the oldest in Australia, has been the centre of Islamic festivals since the 1890s
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Royal Adelaide Show
The Royal Adelaide Show has become the annual meeting place for country and city.
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Stuart Case
National attention was focused on the conduct of justice in South Australia in December 1958 when the Stuart case took…
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The first reading of the proclamation
The December 1836 proclamation at Holdfast Bay is South Australia’s best known historical event, despite it often being misunderstood
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The Great Stuart Demonstration
‘A red letter day in the calendar of South Australia’: welcoming home heroes
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The opening of Parliament 1857
Crowds gathered on 22 April 1857 to watch Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell open South Australia’s first fully elected parliament.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War had a significant impact on South Australian political life, and the course and character of opposition aroused…
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Violet Day
Before the poppy became the recognised flower for war memorials the violet, in South Australia, was the ‘symbol of perpetual…
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Wattle Day
1 September in Australia is Wattle Day, though not widely known, some have argued it should replace Australia Day.
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Writers’ Week
Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary festival began in 1960 as part of the first Adelaide Festival of Arts. Organised…
