Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 28

Colonel William Light, Surveyor General of South Australia

• 1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
• 1847 – Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.
• 1916 – Floods in Clermont, Queensland claim more than 60 lives.
• 1932 – Test wicket-keeper Jack Blackham dies.
• 1938 – The Sydney Mail ceases publication.
• 1989 – Newcastle is the epicentre of Australia's only significant earthquake, 13 die and 160 are injured.