På denne dag: 16. april
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
69: Historisk hendelse
After defeat by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho killed himself.
556: Historisk hendelse
Emperor Justinian I approved and consecrated Pope Pelagius I.
1520: Historisk hendelse
A revolt of citizens in Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I began when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
1799: Historisk hendelse
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.
1862: Historisk hendelse
Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
1912: Historisk hendelse
American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917: Historisk hendelse
World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France.
1919: Historisk hendelse
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
1945: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
1947: Historisk hendelse
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
1948: Historisk hendelse
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
1963: Historisk hendelse
In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
2001: Historisk hendelse
India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
2007: Historisk hendelse
In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
2014: Historisk hendelse
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.
🔍 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.