December 16
714 – Pepin
of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace,
dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by
his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds
actual power in the Frankish
Kingdom.
755 – An
Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang
Guozhong at Yanjing,
initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during
the Tang dynasty of China.
1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is
crowned King of France at Notre Dame in
Paris.
1497 – Vasco
da Gama passes the Great
Fish River at the southern tip of Africa,
where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to
Portugal.
1575 – An earthquake with
an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw strikes Valdivia, Chile.
1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle
of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought
between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting
in a decisive allied forces victory.
1653 – English Interregnum: The
Protectorate: Oliver
Cromwell becomes Lord
Protector of the Commonwealth of England,
Scotland and Ireland.
1689 – Convention Parliament:
The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
1761 – Seven
Years' War: After a four-month siege,
the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress
of Kołobrzeg.
1773 – American Revolution: Boston
Tea Party: Members of the Sons
of Liberty disguised as Mohawk
Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor
as a protest against the Tea
Act.
1777 –
Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]
1782 – British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion:
Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the
subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and
his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.
1811 – The first two in a
series of four severe earthquakes occur
in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides
into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas,
and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1838 – Great
Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led
by Andries Pretorius and Sarel
Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by
Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela
kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa.
1843 –
The discovery of octonions by John
T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was
announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton,
discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date.
1850 –
The Charlotte Jane and
the Randolph bring
the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton
Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army
of Tennessee.
1864 –
American Civil War: Battle of Nashville:
The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs
and destroys the Confederacy's Army
of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat
unit.
1880 –
Outbreak of the First
Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and
the British Empire.
1882 – Wales and England contest
the first Home Nations (now Six Nations)
rugby union match.
1883 – Tonkin
Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
1905 –
In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century"
is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff
Arms Park.
1912 – First
Balkan War: The Royal
Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman
Navy at
the Battle of Elli.
1914 – World
War I: Admiral Franz
von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough,
Hartlepool and Whitby.
1920 –
The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw ,
rocks the Gansu province
in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
1942 – The
Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich
Himmler orders that Roma candidates
for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
1944 – World
War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins
with the surprise offensive of three German armies through
the Ardennes forest.
1960 –
A United Airlines Douglas
DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed
Super Constellation collide over Staten
Island, New
York and
crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
1968 – Second Vatican Council:
Official revocation of the Edict
of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971:
The ceasefire of the Pakistan
Army brings
an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in
Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in
India.
1971 – The
United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's
independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
1989 – Romanian Revolution:
Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania,
in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian
pastor László Tőkés.
2013 –
A bus falls from
an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing
at least 18 people with 20 injured.
2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an
Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan,
killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.
2022 – A landslide occurs at a camp at an
organic farm near the town of Batang
Kali in Selangor,
Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.
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