About January 16
January 16, 2023 is the 16th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 6 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.
- 1547 –Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1572 –Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1761 –The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1786 –The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- 1896 –Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
- 1920 –The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- 1924 –Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- 1938 –The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- 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.
- 1970 –Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 1979 –The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- 1986 –First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 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.
- 2001 –US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
- 2003 –The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
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