Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 16


 * 1796 – Australia's first theatre opens in Sydney.
 * 1962 – Frank Hurley, the first official Australian Imperial Force photographer, dies.
 * 1998 – The first victim of the Melbourne gangland killings, Alphonse Gangitano is murdered in his Templestowe home.
 * 2006 – Premier of Western Australia Geoff Gallop resigns, citing clinical depression as the reason.