A public holiday in South Australia, commemorating the state's foundation on 26 December.
by the turn of the century, Proclamation Day had become a major celebratory event
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- The governor of the new colony gathered together some 200 new settlers at Holdfast Bay, and the date was since celebrated by South Australians as Proclamation Day.
- The lifesavers would patrol the beach between Proclamation Day and New Year's Day.
- Thousands of South Australians celebrated Proclamation Day at Glenelg yesterday.
- She and I defer and renegotiate a meeting to exchange Christmas greetings and presents, which may have to become Proclamation Day greetings and presents, or possibly even New Year greetings and presents.
- An annual Proclamation Day ceremony celebrates the birth of the colony.
- Today became Proclamation Day when they told anyone who would listen how their colony was founded.
- Tomorrow was to be Proclamation Day of Australian Federation in Sydney.
- They cannot help but be excited as they celebrate Proclamation Day today.
- He has taken his children to every Proclamation Day since they were born.
- She marked South Australia's Proclamation Day on Friday by urging the nation's leaders to govern for all with "optimism and unity".