16 December

The 16t o December is the 350t day o the year (351t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 15 days bidin.

 Events 
 1431 - Henry VI o Ingland is crouned King o Fraunce.
 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails past Sooth Africae's Fish River on his voyage tae Indie.
 1575 - A major yirdquauk hits Valdivia in present-day Chile.
 1773 - Boston Tea Pairty: Members o the "Sons o Liberty" throw hundreds o crates o tea intae the river in Boston, Massachusetts in protest at the Tea Act.
 1830 - Uruguay adopts its current banner.
 1835 - A fire in Manhattan destroys 635 biggins.
 1899 - Italian fitbaa club A.C. Milan is foondit.
 1900 - German ship "Gneisenau" sinks in a storm aff Malaga, Spain, killin 40 fowk.
 1920 - A yirdquauk in Cheenae's Gansu province kills 200,000 fowk.
 1922 - Pols Preses Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinatit.
 1944 - Warld War II: German forces stairt the Ardennes offensive in Belgium.
 1946 - Thailand jyns the Unitit Naitions.
 1965 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes King o Tonga.
 1965 - The Pioneer 6 space probe is launched.
 1971 - Bahrain gains unthirldom.
 1971 - Bangladesh's War o Unthirldom ends.
 1991 - Egyptian ferry "Salem Express" crashes intae a reef an sinks, killin 700 fowk.
 1991 - Kazakhstan gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
 2012 - A 23-year-old woman is gang-raped in Delhi, Indie, provokin debate aroond the warld ower the treatment o weemen in Indie.
 2014 - Members o the Pakistani Taliban carry oot a massacre at an airmy schuil in Peshawar, Pakistan, killin a total o 141 fowk, maist o them bairns.
 2020 - The Unitit States accuses Swisserland an Vietnam o currency manipulation.

 Births 

 1485 - Catherine o Aragon, Spaingie-born Queen Consort o Ingland (d. 1536)
 1724 - William Douglas, 4t Duke o Queensberry, Scots nobleman (d. 1810)
 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German componer (d. 1827)
 1775 - Jane Austen, Inglis writer (d. 1817)
 1790 - Leopold I o Belgium (d. 1865)
 1850 - Joseph Taylor, Scots fitbawer (d. 1888)
 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, Roushie penter (d. 1944)
 1868 - William Brown Macdougall, Scots airtist an illustrator (d. 1936)
 1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian componer, linguist an componer (d. 1967)
 1888 - Alexander I o Yugoslavie (d. 1934)
 1899 - Noël Coward, Inglis componer, writer an actor (d. 1973)
 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, Inglis writer (d. 2008)
 1923 - Ernst Florian Winter, Austrick-American historian (d. 2014)
 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
 1938 - Liv Ullmann, Norse actress
 1946 - Benny Andersson, Swadish muisicker (ABBA)
 1948 - Pat Quinn, American politeecian
 1956 - Tommy Burns, Scots fitbawer (d. 2008)
 1963 - Benjamin Bratt, American actor
 1969 - Kevin McGowne, Scots fitbawer
 1969 - Adam Riess, American astropheesicist
 1971 - Scott Booth, Scots fitbawer
 1973 - Mariza, Portuguese fado sangster
 1988 - Mats Hummels, German fitbawer
 1992 - Tom Rogic, Australie fitbawer
 1995 - Ryan Gauld, Scots fitbawer
 1997 - Zara Larsson, Swadish sangster

 Daiths 
 401 - Pape Anastasius I
 882 - Pape John VIII
 1634 - George Hay, 1st Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots nobleman an poleetical offeecial (b. 1570)
 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer an folklorist (b. 1786)
 1911 - Thomas Blake Glover, Scots merchant in Japan (b. 1838)
 1922 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Jewish lexicografer an eeditor (b. 1858)
 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Preses o Poland (b. 1865)
 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, Inglis writer (b. 1874)
 1965 - Queen Salote Tupou III o Tonga (b. 1900)
 1971 - Torrance Gillick, Scots fitbawer (b. 1915)
 1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)

 Halidays 
Independence Day (Bahrain, Kazakhstan)
Victory Day (Bangladesh)
Day o Reconciliation (Sooth Africae)

Category:Days o the year