SomeFacts | December 16

On this day - December 16

533 — The Digest, the great collection of all Roman jurists' ...

714 — Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at ...

755 — An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, ...

1431 — Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King ...

1497 — Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip ...

1575 — An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw strikes ...

1598 — Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the ...

1653 — English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes ...

1689 — Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in ...

1707 — The most recent eruption of Mount Fuji.

1761 — Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians ...

1773 — American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of ...

1777 — Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of ...

1782 — British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada ...

1811 — The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in ...

1826 — Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, ...

1838 — Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries ...

1850 — The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the ...

1863 — American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Nashville ends as the Union ...

1880 — Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African ...

1882 — Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six ...

1883 — Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

1905 — In rugby union, the "Match of the Century" is played ...

1912 — First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman ...

1914 — World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on ...

1920 — The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw rocks the Gansu province in ...

1942 — The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise ...

1951 — A Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in Elizabeth, ...

1960 — A United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super ...

1968 — Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of ...

1971 — The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, ...

1971 — Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ...

1972 — The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ...

1973 — Aeroflot Flight 2022 crashes in the Soviet Union's (now ...

1986 — The Jeltoqsan riots erupt in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, in response ...

1989 — Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, ...

1992 — Deportation of Hamas members: Israeli authorities began ...

1997 — Dennō Senshi Porygon: Over 600 kids in Japan suffer ...

2011 — The Zhanaozen massacre occurs when violent protests by oil ...

2013 — A bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, capital of the ...

2014 — Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public ...

2022 — A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town ...

2024 — The Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison, ...