SomeFacts | January 16

On this day - January 16

Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the ...

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the ...

378 — General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the ...

550 — Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome ...

929 — Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba.

1120 — Crusades: The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the ...

1275 — Edward I permits his mother Eleanor of Provence to expel the ...

1349 — Basel Massacre: Dozens to hundreds of Jews were burned to ...

1362 — Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...

1537 — Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to ...

1547 — Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of ...

1556 — Philip II becomes King of Spain.

1572 — Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty ...

1605 — The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la ...

1641 — Reapers' War: The Junta de Braços (parliamentary ...

1707 — The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the ...

1716 — King Philip V of Spain promulgates the Nueva Planta decree of ...

1757 — Forces of the Maratha Empire are defeated by the Durrani ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

1786 — Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by ...

1809 — Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of ...

1847 — Westward expansion of the United States: John C. Frémont is ...

1862 — Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys ...

1878 — Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain ...

1883 — The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the ...

1900 — The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of ...

1909 — Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South ...

1913 — Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first ...

1919 — Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth ...

1920 — The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in ...

1921 — The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine ...

1942 — Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film ...

1942 — The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the ...

1945 — World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, ...

1959 — Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic ...

1969 — Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the ...

1969 — Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in ...

1979 — Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his ...

1983 — Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport ...

1991 — Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

1992 — El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec ...

1995 — An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 ...

2001 — US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore ...

2001 — Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is ...

2002 — War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously ...

2003 — The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which ...

2006 — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new ...

2011 — Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society ...

2012 — The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the ...

2016 — Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 ...

2017 — Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area ...

2018 — Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine ...

2020 — The United States Senate ratifies the United ...

2020 — The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its ...