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Jacob Pitman began construction of the first Council Chamber on the current site in July 1843. It was completed in time for the inaugural session of the new legislature on 10 October.
South Australia’s first gay pride march, the ‘Proud Parade’, is held in Adelaide. The next occurs 30 years later in 2003, when the Adelaide Pride March opens the city’s annual Feast Festival.
Governor Buxton laid the foundation stone with great ceremony on 26 September 1898.
