What are the important events that happened on January 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 16 is the 16^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 3, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 482,496 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexadecagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 13 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,409 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 16 Historical Events

• 27 BC –
  Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
• 1120 –
  The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1492 –
  The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
• 1605 –
  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.
• 1786 –
  The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• 1878 –
  Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 1900 –
  The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• 1909 –
  Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• 1945 –
  Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
• 1970 –
  Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.

Who were born on January 16?

• 1626 –
  Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
• 1749 –
  Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
• 1910 –
  Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
• 1934 –
  Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
• 1935 –
  A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
• 1950 –
  Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
• 1963 –
  James May, English television presenter
• 1968 –
  David Chokachi, American actor
• 1980 –
  Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
• 1981 –
  Bobby Zamora, English footballer

Who died on January 16?

• 1400 –
  John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (b. 1352)
• 1554 –
  Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
• 1748 –
  Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
• 1856 –
  Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
• 1920 –
  Reginald De Koven, American music critic and operetta composer (b. 1859)
• 1976 –
  Israel Abramofsky, Russian-born American artist (b. 1888)
• 1997 –
  Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
• 2002 –
  Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
• 2004 –
  Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• 2007 –
  Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)