På denne dag: 16. mai
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1426: Historisk hendelse
Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing to become the king of Ava, in present-day Myanmar.
1605: Historisk hendelse
After a scuffle in which one cardinal had several bones broken, a papal conclave convened in Rome elected Camillo Borghese as Pope Paul V.
1777: Historisk hendelse
Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, is wounded in a duel with Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh, dying of his injuries several days later.
1811: Historisk hendelse
Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz, Spain.
1812: Historisk hendelse
The Conference of Dresden began, an attempt by Napoleon to secure support for his planned invasion of Russia.
1832: Historisk hendelse
Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.
1866: Historisk hendelse
The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent piece to be made of a copper–nickel alloy.
1881: Historisk hendelse
John Richard Clark Hall, a barrister who would go on to write a widely used Anglo-Saxon dictionary and translation of Beowulf, was admitted to Gray's Inn.
1918: Historisk hendelse
The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.
1925: Historisk hendelse
The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1929: Historisk hendelse
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
1943: Historisk hendelse
Second World War: The Royal Air Force's "Dambusters" squadron embarked on an attack on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis.
1958: Historisk hendelse
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404.012 mph (2,259.538 km/h).
1959: Historisk hendelse
The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time.
1960: Historisk hendelse
American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu.
1961: Historisk hendelse
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-sun in Seoul, ending the Second Republic of Korea.
1968: Historisk hendelse
A gas explosion in Ronan Point (collapse pictured) causes a corner of the building to collapse, leading to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings.
1975: Historisk hendelse
Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, the Kingdom of Sikkim (flag pictured) abolished its monarchy and was annexed to become the 22nd state of India.
1975: Historisk hendelse
Japanese climber Junko Tabei (pictured) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1977: Historisk hendelse
The first Chuck E. Cheese location, the first family restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment (example pictured), and an indoor arcade, opened in San Jose, California.
2014: Historisk hendelse
At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.
🔍 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.