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The following events took place on January 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

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• 27 BC

  Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
• 378

  General Siyaj K‘ak’conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
• 550

  Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
• 750

  The army of Abdallah ibn Ali and Abu Awn Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid defeats that of Marwan II in the Battle of the Zab, bringing the Abbasid Revolution to completion.
• 929

  Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
• 1120

  The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1362

  A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
• 1412

  The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
• 1492

  The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
• 1547

  Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1556

  Philip II becomes King of Spain.
• 1572

  Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
• 1581

  The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
• 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, Spain.
• 1707

  The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
• 1761

  The British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
• 1780

  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
• 1786

  Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• 1809

  Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
• 1847

  John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
• 1862

  Hartley Colliery Disaster: Two hundred four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• 1878

  Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 1883

  The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
• 1896

  Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
• 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.
• 1919

  Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
• 1920

  Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1920

  The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• 1921

  The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.

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