December 16th, 1521

Born on December 16th, 1521

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 184,000 days old!

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What happened on December 16th?

December 16th, 2014

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.

December 16th, 2012

A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.

December 16th, 1997

"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.

December 16th, 1971

The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.

December 16th, 1942

World War II: Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.

December 16th, 1938

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.

December 16th, 1930

German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

December 16th, 1922

Gabriel Narutowicz (pictured), the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.

December 16th, 1918

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.

December 16th, 1914

First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

December 16th, 1901

English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.

December 16th, 1893

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

December 16th, 1850

Settlers of the Canterbury Association aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony at Christchurch, New Zealand.

December 16th, 1811

The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.

December 16th, 1773

American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor (pictured) to protest British taxation without representation.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 16th

Same year
Born in 1521

69

Urban VII

Pope

*August 4th, 1521, Rome †September 27th, 1590, Rome

60

Daniel Brendel von Homburg

Roman Catholic archbishop

*November 30th, 1521, Aschaffenburg †January 1st, 1582, Aschaffenburg

59

Johann Marbach

German theologian

*April 14th, 1521, Lindau †March 17th, 1581, Strasbourg

49

Francesco Laparelli

Italian military engineer (1521-1570)

*April 5th, 1521, Cortona †October 20th, 1570, Heraklion

32

Thomas Wyatt

English rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I (1521-1554)

*September 20th, 1521, Chatham †April 21st, 1554, London

56

Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu

Portuguese infanta (1521-1577)

*June 8th, 1521, Lisbon †October 10th, 1577, Lisbon

67

Lodovico Guicciardini

Italian historian (1521-1589)

*August 19th, 1521, Florence †March 22nd, 1589, Antwerp

59

John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev

*June 29th, 1521, Haderslev †October 1st, 1580, Haderslev

77

Paul von Eitzen

German theologian (1521-1598)

*January 25th, 1521, Hamburg †February 25th, 1598, Schleswig

53

Sebastian Ochsenkhun

German composer and luth player

*February 6th, 1521, Nuremberg †August 20th, 1574, Heidelberg

31

John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

German duke

*May 10th, 1521, Coburg †February 8th, 1553, Coburg

72

Xu Wei

Ming Dynasty painter (1521-1593)

*January 1st, 1521, Shaoxing †January 1st, 1593

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born) which are celebrated on December 16th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1521 is a normal year and no leap year.

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