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| January 16th, 2027 (January 16 2027) | Event | The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| January 16th, 2006 (January 16 2006) | Event | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia s new president. She becomes Africa s first female elected head of state. | |
| January 16th, 2003 (January 16 2003) | Event | The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. | |
| January 16th, 2002 (January 16 2002) | Event | The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban. | Osama bin Laden Quotes |
| January 16th, 2001 (January 16 2001) | Event | Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. | |
| January 16th, 2001 (January 16 2001) | Event | US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| January 16th, 1996 (January 16 1996) | Event | Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigns from office for health reasons. | |
| January 16th, 1992 (January 16 1992) | Event | El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000. | |
| January 16th, 1991 (January 16 1991) | Event | The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time). | |
| January 16th, 1986 (January 16 1986) | Event | First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. | |
| January 16th, 1979 (January 16 1979) | Event | The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt. | |
| January 16th, 1970 (January 16 1970) | Event | Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. | Buckminster Fuller Quotes |
| January 16th, 1969 (January 16 1969) | Event | Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. | |
| January 16th, 1968 (January 16 1968) | Event | The Youth International Party is founded. | |
| January 16th, 1956 (January 16 1956) | Event | President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. | |
| January 16th, 1945 (January 16 1945) | Event | Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Fuhrerbunker. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| January 16th, 1938 (January 16 1938) | Event | The famous jazz concert by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and special guests takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first jazz performance in that venue. | |
| January 16th, 1920 (January 16 1920) | Event | Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. is founded on the campus of Howard University. | |
| January 16th, 1919 (January 16 1919) | Event | Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. | |
| January 16th, 1909 (January 16 1909) | Event | Ernest Shackleton s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. | |
| January 16th, 1900 (January 16 1900) | Event | The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. | |
| January 16th, 1896 (January 16 1896) | Event | Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. | |
| January 16th, 1883 (January 16 1883) | Event | The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed. | |
| January 16th, 1878 (January 16 1878) | Event | Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. | |
| January 16th, 1864 (January 16 1864) | Event | Second Schleswig War: King Christian IX of Denmark declares war on the German Confederation in order to occupy Schleswig. | |
| January 16th, 1847 (January 16 1847) | Event | John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. | |
| January 16th, 1809 (January 16 1809) | Event | Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruna. | |
| January 16th, 1780 (January 16 1780) | Event | American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. | |
| January 16th, 1777 (January 16 1777) | Event | Vermont declares its independence from New York. | |
| January 16th, 1761 (January 16 1761) | Event | The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. | |
| January 16th, 1707 (January 16 1707) | Event | The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain. | |
| January 16th, 1605 (January 16 1605) | Event | 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. | Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| January 16th, 1581 (January 16 1581) | Event | The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. | |
| January 16th, 1572 (January 16 1572) | Event | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. | |
| January 16th, 1556 (January 16 1556) | Event | Philip II becomes King of Spain. | |
| January 16th, 1547 (January 16 1547) | Event | Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia. | |
| January 16th, 1492 (January 16 1492) | Event | The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella. | |
| January 16th, 1412 (January 16 1412) | Event | The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy. | |
| January 16th, 1362 (January 16 1362) | Event | A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt. | |
| January 16th, 1120 (January 16 1120) | Event | The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. | |
| January 16th, 0550 (January 16 0550) | Event | Gothic War (535-552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. | |
