What happened on March 16 in history
What happened on March 16 in history
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16 March: We look back at the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years and bring you what happened on this day in history.

  • 597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

  • 1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar

  • 1190 York Program: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather than submit to baptism

  • 1249 The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.

  • 1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.

  • 1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)

  • 1527 Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen

  • 1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass

  • 1641 General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution

  • 1660 English Long Parliament disbands

  • 1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.

  • 1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe

  • 1731 Treaty of Vienna signed by Prince Eugene of Savoy, Count Sinzendorf and Count Gundacker, Thomas Stahremberg and the British envoy to Vienna, Sir Thomas Robinson.

  • 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29.

  • 1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point, NY)

  • 1802 US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)

  • 1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium

  • 1827 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing

  • 1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes

  • 1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)

  • 1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)

  • 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands

  • 1836 Constitution of the Republic of Texas approved, legalizes slavery

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