Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 16

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• 1774 - Birth of Matthew Flinders, circumnavigator of Australia.
• 1826 - The Australian Subscription Library, the forerunner of the State Library of New South Wales, is founded; it opens, December 1, 1827.
• 1914 - Fourteen people die in a train accident at Exeter, New South Wales.
• 2001 - HIH Insurance folds in the largest corporate collapse in Australian history, a Royal Commission and criminal proceedings followed leading to the imprisonment of director Rodney Adler and two additional former executives.