På denne dag: 16. mars
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
597 f.Kr.: Historisk hendelse
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
934: Historisk hendelse
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
1190: Historisk hendelse
Around 150 Jews died inside York Castle, the majority committing mass suicide to avoid being killed by a mob.
1322: Historisk hendelse
Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.
1621: Historisk hendelse
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English.
1621: Historisk hendelse
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (depicted).
1660: Historisk hendelse
The Long Parliament, originally called by King Charles I of England in 1640 following the Bishops' Wars, dissolved itself.
1689: Historisk hendelse
The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
1782: Historisk hendelse
American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán from England off the coast of what is now Honduras.
1802: Historisk hendelse
Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy (pictured) at West Point, New York.
1819: Historisk hendelse
The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated.
1872: Historisk hendelse
In the inaugural final of the FA Cup Wanderers defeated Royal Engineers 1–0 in London.
1935: Historisk hendelse
Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.
1941: Historisk hendelse
World War II: Operation Appearance took place to re-establish British Somaliland in Africa.
1960: Historisk hendelse
African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
1962: Historisk hendelse
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.
1968: Historisk hendelse
Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.
1978: Historisk hendelse
Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
1984: Historisk hendelse
William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
1988: Historisk hendelse
Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
1988: Historisk hendelse
Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.
2001: Historisk hendelse
A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.
2002: Historisk hendelse
Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg, together with her Johannes-Passion, by soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.
2003: Historisk hendelse
American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house.
2015: Historisk hendelse
Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were fired as judges on the second series of The X Factor New Zealand, following public backlash over comments they made to a contestant during the first live show.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.