About January 16

January 16, 2025 is the 16th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 13 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.
  • 1412 –
    The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
  • 1492 –
    The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
  • 1556 –
    Philip II becomes King of Spain.
  • 1581 –
    The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
  • 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.
  • 1847 –
    John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
  • 1878 –
    Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • 1883 –
    The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
  • 1900 –
    The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • 1909 –
    Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • 1919 –
    Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
  • 1939 –
    The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
  • 1969 –
    Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
  • 1979 –
    The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
  • 2001 –
    Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • 2001 –
    US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
  • 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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