December 16

December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 15 days remaining.

Events:

1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1689: The English Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1773: Boston Tea Party: In Boston, tea is thrown in the sea as a protest against British taxation. This event marks the beginning of the American War of Independence (it doesn't really mark the beginning, the Boston Massacre was earlier. Historian to advise?).
1809: The French Senate divorces Napoleon Bonaparte from empress Josephine.
1838: Boers defeat Zulu chieftain Dingaan.
1850: The first four ships arrive at Lyttleton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
1864: Union troops led by general George Thomas crush federate troops in the Battle of Nashville.
1893: World premier of Dvorak's "New World Symphony".
1915: Albert Einstein publishes the General Relativity.
1922: Poland's President Gabriel Narutowicz assassinated
1969: The British House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty.
1971: Bangladesh declares independence from Pakistan.
1990: Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected president in Haiti's first democratic election.
1998: Beginning of Desert Fox: American and British troops bomb Iraqi targets after Iraq obstructs the workings of the UNSCOM (UN inspection of Iraqi weapons).
1999: Mud streams kill thousands in Venezuela.
2000: NASA announces that there is an ocean beneath Jupiter moon Ganymedes's icy surface.

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December