Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 8

Portrait of Alfred Felton by John Longstaff

• 1810 – The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen’s Land, begins publication.
• 1878 – The telephone is used for the first time in Australia in Melbourne.
• 1885 – John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia is born in Creswick in central Victoria.
• 1904 – Death of art collector and philanthropist Alfred Felton and the establishment of the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery of Victoria.