Adelaide's early economy started to get on its feet in 1838 with the arrival of livestock from New South Wales and Tasmania.

* 1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.

There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson ( 1812 – 1880 ), Premier of Tasmania.

They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

* Cape Portland, Tasmania, a cape on the north-eastern tip of Tasmania

The Tasmanian devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

This disappearance is usually blamed on dingoes, which are absent from Tasmania.

One strand conformation polymorphism analysis ( OSCP ) on the major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) class I domain taken from various locations across Tasmania showed 25 different types, and showed a different pattern of MHC types in north-western Tasmania to eastern Tasmania.

Driving from Canberra to Sydney, en route to his home in Tasmania for Easter, he suffered a heart attack, dying soon after in hospital in Sydney, on Good Friday.

The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania.

* Main articles: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania

Female Ochlerotatus notoscriptus feeding on a human arm, Tasmania, Australia

The most skiers towed behind one boat is 145, set by the Horsehead Water Ski Club in Strahan, Tasmania, Australia on 27 January 2012.

The world's first political parties to campaign on a predominantly environmental platform were the United Tasmania Group which contested the April 1972 state election in Tasmania, Australia and the Values Party of New Zealand, which contested the November 1972 New Zealand general election.

It became extinct on the mainland some 600 years ago, and is now found only in Tasmania.

Bryant doubled back to where Janet and Neville Quin, who owned a wildlife park on the east coast of Tasmania, were beginning to move toward Mason Cove and away from the buses.

* Bass Strait, which lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania, and depending on definition, either connects the Indian Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, or connects the Southern Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Portland was settled on 19 November 1834 by the Henty family, who were originally farmers from Van Diemen's Land ( Tasmania ).

" Permanent Agriculture: Precursor to Organic Farming ", Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania, no. 83, pp. 19 – 21, 2006.

A Vale ( or Valley ) named after Rasselas is located in Tasmania within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park Latitude ( DMS ): 42 ° 34 ' 60 S Longitude ( DMS ): 146 ° 19 ' 60 E

There have been five unconfirmed sightings ( mostly from New Zealand ), as well as a " probable " sighting near Shag Rocks and four confirmed sightings — the first two confirmed sightings occurred in 1985, within a few minutes of each other, off the Tristan da Cunha group ( first sighting at 37 ° 18 ' S, 12 ° 32 ' W ); the third in 2002 near Gough Island ( 40 ° 19 ' S, 9 ° 53 ' W ); and the fourth in 2004 south of Tasmania ( 48 ° 50 ' S, 150 ° 06 ' E ).

Born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19 December 1974, Ricky Ponting is the eldest of Graeme and Lorraine Ponting's four children.

Playing five games for Tasmania for the 1992 Under – 19 carnival in Perth, Ponting scored 350 runs, earning him selection in the 13-man national Under – 19 development squad for the upcoming tour of South Africa — the first Australian cricket team to make an official tour to the country since Bill Lawry's team in 1970.

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet KCH PC ( 21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854 ) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras ( 1814 – 1822 ), Van Diemen's Land ( now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia ) ( 1823 – 1837 ) and Upper Canada ( 1838 – 1841 ).

Paul Henry Calvert, AO ( born 19 January 1940 ), Australian politician, was a Senator for Tasmania from 1987 to 2007, and was President of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2007.

* Malcolm Dowling: Born Tasmania 19 June 1888, joined Tasmania Police 11 July 1910.

On 18 September 1900, the London Gazette carried an announcement that Wylly had been granted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, on the nomination of the Governor of Tasmania, backdated to 19 May 1900.

The troopship arrived in Tasmania on 26 November and Statton was discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 19 January 1920.

Nicholas John Sherry ( born 19 November 1955 ), a former Australian politician, is a former member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania from July 1990 until June 2012, representing the Australian Labor Party.

He moved on to Tasmania and it was not until the Henty brothers landed in Portland Bay on 19 / 11 / 1834 and John Batman settled on the site of Melbourne that the Port Phillip District was officially sanctioned on 10 April 1837.

Rossarden is an old mining town in central Tasmania, located 19 km from Avoca.

Matthew " Richo " Richardson ( born 19 March 1975 in Devonport, Tasmania ), is a retired Australian rules footballer and current media personality who represented Richmond in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Carol Louise Brown ( born 19 July 1963 ), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Tasmania, since 25 August 2005.

Drier-than-normal conditions are also in general observed in Queensland, inland Victoria, inland New South Wales, and eastern Tasmania from June to August.

Tasmania was granted responsible self-government in 1856, but the colony did not receive its own flag until Queen Victoria had first proposed on 7 August 1869, that the colony of Tasmania ( and the other Australian colonies ) should adopt a Union flag defaced in the centre with the State Badge.

The Convention was opened for signature on 1 August 1980 and entered into force on 7 April 1982 by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, headquartered in Tasmania, Australia.

When Peter Hollingworth resigned in May 2003, Sir Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania, took on that role, serving until Major-General Michael Jeffery took office in August 2003.

Bacon was posthumously awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Tasmania in August 2004.

* 2006 ( 27 August ): Final crossing of the Spirit of Tasmania III from Sydney to Devonport

TDT began broadcasting on VHF channel 11 from Mount Wellington in Hobart in late December 2003, and on UHF to north-eastern Tasmania ( including Launceston ) in August 2004, and in 2006 Kelcey Tier, Devonport.

On 7 August 2007 Calvert announced his intention to resign his position as President of the Senate on 14 August and to resign as a Senator for Tasmania before the Senate resumed on 10 September.

Southern Cross sailed from London on 22 August 1898, and after a three-week pause in Hobart, Tasmania, reached Cape Adare on 17 February 1899.

" The first game between teams representing the northern and southern halves of Tasmania took place at the oval in August 1923 in front of a crowd of 9, 441.

In August 2003 the Labor Premier of Tasmania Jim Bacon announced the appointment of Butler as Governor of Tasmania.

On 5 August The Mercury carried an article reporting the University of Tasmania political scientist Richard Herr as saying that " recent goings-on at Government House appeared inconsistent with legislation attached to the office of Governor.

Colonel William Paterson, FRS ( born 17 August 1755 and died 21 June 1810 ) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania.

* 9 August – Richard Butler, the controversial governor of Tasmania, resigns.

* August 28 – at Hobart, Tasmania, Australian swimmer Libby Lenton betters Natalie Coughlin's world record in the women's 100m butterfly ( short course ) from 56: 39 to 55: 95

Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, GCMG ( full name: Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland ; 24 May 186122 August 1940 ) was a Maltese and British politician and peer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta, Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales.

Major General Sir Harry Barron KCMG, CVO ( 11 August 1847 – 27 March 1921 ) was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.

Joined Tasmania Police 15 October 1964, Deputy Commissioner January 1991, appointed Commissioner August 1996, retired 7 March 2008.

Whittle was born on 2 August 1882 at Huon Island, Tasmania, to Henry Whittle, a labourer, and his wife Catherine ( née Sullivan ).

He later served as Governor of Tasmania from 23 August 1951 to 4 June 1958.

Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1931 representing the Australian Labor Party, Dwyer served as Deputy Premier of Tasmania from August 1958 to May 1959 and remained in office until his death.