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Historical Events for March 16th

  • Year 455 Calendar » Emperor Valentinian III is Assassination assassinated by two Huns Hunnic retainers while training with the Bow and arrow bow on the Campus Martius (Ancient Rome Rome).
  • Year 597 Calendar » Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
  • Year 934 Calendar » Meng Zhixiang declares himself Emperors of China e.g emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
  • Year 1244 Calendar » Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Siege of Montségur called Fall of Montségur.
  • Year 1322 Calendar » The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
  • Year 1621 Calendar » Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
  • Year 1660 Calendar » The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament (1660) called Convention Parliament.
  • Year 1689 Calendar » The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
  • Year 1782 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops Battle of Roatán or capture the British-held island of Roatán.
  • Year 1792 Calendar » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • Year 1802 Calendar » The United States Army Corps of Engineers known as Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy named United States Military Academy at West Point.
  • Year 1812 Calendar » Battle of Badajoz (1812) Battle of Badajoz (March 16 April 6) Great Britain British and Portugal Portuguese forces besieged and defeated France French garrison during Peninsular War.
  • Year 1815 Calendar » William I of the Netherlands or Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarchy named constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
  • Year 1818 Calendar » In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spain e.g Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
  • Year 1861 Calendar » Edward Clark (governor) Edward Clark becomes List of Governors of Texas Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America Confederacy.
  • Year 1864 Calendar » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union (American Civil War) known as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • Year 1865 Calendar » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • Year 1872 Calendar » The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest association football known as football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
  • Year 1900 Calendar » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age List of archaeological sites sorted by country named archaeological site on Crete.
  • Year 1916 Calendar » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
  • Year 1924 Calendar » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, 1924 known as Treaty of Rome, Rijeka e.g Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • Year 1926 Calendar » Rocket Modern rocketry named History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard (scientist) or Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • Year 1935 Calendar » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
  • Year 1936 Calendar » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny River Allegheny and Monongahela River Monongahela rivers and lead to Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • Year 1939 Calendar » Marriage of Princess Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt called Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
  • Year 1939 » From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia named Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
  • Year 1940 Calendar » First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
  • Year 1942 Calendar » The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
  • Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
  • Year 1945 » Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by United Kingdom or British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
  • Year 1962 Calendar » A Flying Tiger Line Lockheed Constellation e.g Super Constellation Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 e.g disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
  • Year 1966 Calendar » Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned United States or American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
  • Year 1968 Calendar » Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
  • Year 1968 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
  • Year 1969 Calendar » A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Viasa Flight 742 or crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
  • Year 1976 Calendar » Prime Minister of the United Kingdom named British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
  • Year 1977 Calendar » Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
  • Year 1978 Calendar » Supertanker 'Amoco Cadiz' splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
  • Year 1978 » Former Italy known as Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
  • Year 1983 Calendar » Demolition of the Transmitter Ismaning or radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
  • Year 1984 Calendar » William Francis Buckley known as William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
  • Year 1985 Calendar » Associated Press newsman Terry A. Anderson known as Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • Year 1988 Calendar » The Troubles: Ulster loyalism Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone (loyalist) Michael Stone Milltown Cemetery attack attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was
  • Year 1988 » Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
  • Year 1988 » Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy (crime) known as conspiracy to defraud the United States.
  • Year 1989 Calendar » In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Great Pyramid of Giza known as Pyramid of Cheops.
  • Year 1995 Calendar » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution named Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
  • Year 2003 Calendar » Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
  • Year 2005 Calendar » Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
  • Year 2014 Calendar » Crimea votes in a controversial Crimean referendum, 2014 or referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

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