All Events

Historical Events on January 16

  • American Revolutionary War

    1780

    American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

  • Virginia

    1786

    Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

  • John C. Frémont

    1847

    John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

  • Adolf Hitler

    1945

    Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

    1979

    The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.

  • Iraq

    1991

    Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

  • El Salvador

    1992

    El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

    2001

    Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.

  • Bill Clinton

    2001

    US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.

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Famous Birthdays on January 16

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Famous Deaths on January 16

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