About January 16
January 16, 2021 is the 16th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 27 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 16
- 27 BC –Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 550 –Gothic War (535–554): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
- 1362 –A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
- 1492 –The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 1556 –Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1605 –The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
- 1707 –The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 1761 –The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1780 –American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1878 –Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
- 1900 –The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- 1920 –The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- 1938 –The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- 1945 –Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 –President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1969 –Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1986 –First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 1991 –The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
- 1992 –El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
- 2006 –Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.
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