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.
  • 1120 –
    The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • 1412 –
    The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
  • 1547 –
    Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 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.
  • 1780 –
    American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1945 –
    Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
  • 1968 –
    The Youth International Party is founded.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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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