The December 16th is the 350e Jour of the Année (351e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 15 days before the end of the year.

Events

  • 1431 : Henri VI of England is crowned and crowned King de France with Notre Dame by the cardinal of Winchester.

  • 1526 : In accordance with the clauses of the Convention of Vienna concluded in 1515, the crown of Hungary, in the absence of direct heir, is allocated to the large-duke of Austria Ferdinand Ier, the brother of Charles Quint. The hereditary grounds of Austria and the States of the crowns of Saint Etienne and Saint Venceslas are thus joined together under the domination of the Habsbourg.
  • 1538 : The king François Ier promulgates a edict authorizing the persecution of the Protestants.
  • 1598 : Battle of No Ryang between a fleet sino - Korean and the Japanese fleet . The battle is completed by a Korean victory. End of the War Imjin.
  • 1600 : Henri IV wife Marie de Médicis with Lyon.
  • 1653 : Beginning of the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell which is named Lord Protecteur England, of Scotland and Ireland (fine in 1658).
  • 1669 : Racine makes play, for the first time at Paris, Britannicus , Roman tragedy with political “message”.
  • 1740 : Frederic II of Prussia invades the Silesia.
  • 1773 : Tea-party of Boston (see: Boston Tea Party)
  • 1796: Attempt at unloading in Ireland of the troops of the general Shakes.
  • 1800 : The Russia, which left the battle fields after Zurich in 1799, animates the league of the neutrals , directed against the England, with the Scandinavian States that the Prussia rejoins this day.
  • 1823 : Agustín de Iturbide, which had been made proclaim emperor of the Mexico in 1822, must abdicate following the rising led by the general Santa Anna. This one proclaims then the Republic.
  • 1879 : Southern Africa: The Boers, dissatisfied with the English annexation, found the republic of the Transvaal.
  • 1897 : The Greece and the Turkey sign the peace of Constantinople , which regulates the problem of the Crete.
  • 1899 : Southern Africa: The Boers inflict their third defeat with the English in five days.
  • 1904 : In France, Law abrogeant article 298 of the Civil code which prohibited, in the event of adultery, to marry its partner.
  • 1914 : The Britanniques proclaim their protectorate on the Egypt.
  • 1916 : Raspoutine, a monk who passed to exert a harmful influence on the tsar Nicolas II, is assassinated with Petrograd and its body thrown in the Neva where it will be fished out three days later.
  • 1920: A Seism, magnitude 8,5 (Richter), makes some 180.000 dead in the province of Gansu, in China.
  • 1936 : Zhang Xueliang invites Tchang Kaï-chek with Xi' year, where its soldiers sequester it without way during ten days.
  • 1943 : A decree of the federal Parlement of the Swiss Confédération adopts the federal law relating to the legal organization whose coming into effect is fixed at January 1st 1945.
  • 1944 : in Belgium, beginning of the battles of covering of the Ardennes; the Americans will resist, with Bastogne, and the last German start in the west will fail.
  • 1946 : Leon Blum becomes Prime Minister in France.
  • 1948 : Independence of the Kampuchea.
  • 1949 :
    • with London, the Parliament modifies the Actes of British North America, giving to the Canada the capacity to amend its constitution.
    • Mao Zedong goes to Moscow for the seventieth birthday of Stalin.
  • 1954 : Synthetic first diamond by American professor Hall.
  • 1959 : The Belgium promises independence with the Congo.
  • 1966 : The Safety advice of UNO vote of the economic sanctions against the Rhodesia.
  • 1969: with London, by 343 votes against 185, the Communes abolish the capital punishment.
  • 1971 :
    • the Indian army occupies Dacca, capital of Pakistan-Eastern and the Pakistani forces deposit the weapons; the Indians announce the cease-fire.
    • Independence of the Bangladesh.
  • 1978 : Establishment of diplomatic relations between the the United States and the popular China.
  • 1982 : Lech Walesa is challenged, while measures are taken to prevent any public demonstration in Poland, at the time of the birthday of the riots of Gdansk.
  • 1987 : to Palermo, Michele Greco and eighteen other gangsters are condemned to the life imprisonment; 319 accomplices are also condemned.
  • 1990 : Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes president of Haiti, after more than 30 years of dictatorship.
  • 1991 :
    • the chain TF1, subsidiary of the group Bouygues, diffuses extracts of a press conference of Fidel Castro, presenting them like answers to the questions of one of its journalists.
    • Independence of the Kazakhstan with respect to the Soviet Union.
  • 1993 : The Genetic card of the man established. (see: DNA)
  • 1995: Kickoff of the deployment in Bosnia-Herzégovine of the multinational force of peace.
  • 1997 : In Japan, the episode Porygon, the Virtual Soldier (non-existent official French title, Electric Soldier Porygon in English) of the animated series Pokémon causes the admission in hospital of 685 spectators. The cause of the disorders instantaneous neuro-physics on these children is a sequence flashante during which the fast successions of various colors of the plans (alternation of blue and red) modifies the feeling of conscience of the individual.
  • 1998 :
    • the collapse of a building of five floors makes twenty-six dead with Rome.
    • Operation Fox of the desert in Iraq.
  • 1999 :
    • the assessment of the days of rain and floods, with the Venezuela, is established with more than five thousand dead.
    • the Venezuela becomes the " republic bolivarienne of Venezuela ".
  • 2002 :
    • the Canada becomes the 99e country to sign the Protocole of Kyoto.
    • Closing in France of the center of Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais) which lodged migrants trying to join the the United Kingdom.
  • 2005 :
    • Four old little girls from four to eleven years are mown with Thionville (the Moselle) by an ambulance of the Sapeurs-pompiers which had just been stolen. One of them 11 years old will succumb to its wounds. The young roadhog will be condemned the firm November 14th 2006 to six years of prison.
    • a professor of visual art teaching with the Louis-Blériot college with Etampes (the Essonne) is stabbed in full course by one of its pupils old of a score of years.
    • Lionel Dumont, one of the ex-leaders of the " gang of Roubaix " , is condemned to 30 years of imprisonment to have taken part in a series of violent holds-up in the metropolis inhabitant of Lille.
    • appearance of the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk before a court of Istanbul, for " insult deliberated with the identity turque".
  • 2006 :

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Aggée (prophet) (6th century before JC)
  • Marine of Rome martyr, (3rd century)
  • Adelaide of Burgundy (or Alice of Soda)

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Théophano (empress) († 893)
  • Sophie of Moscow († 1542)

See too

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