På denne dag: 16. desember
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1598: Historisk hendelse
Led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the Korean navy were victorious at Battle of Noryang, ending the Japanese invasions of Korea.
1653: Historisk hendelse
Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
1689: Historisk hendelse
The Parliament of England enacted the Bill of Rights, setting out basic civil rights and later influencing other documents such as the U.S. Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1707: Historisk hendelse
The last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some 800 million m3 (28 billion cu ft) of volcanic ash.
1740: Historisk hendelse
Prussian forces, led by Frederick the Great, moved into the Habsburg region of Silesia, starting the First Silesian War.
1761: Historisk hendelse
Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, Russian forces captured Kolberg, the last major Prussian port on the Baltic Sea.
1773: Historisk hendelse
American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor (pictured) to protest British taxation without representation.
1811: Historisk hendelse
The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.
1850: Historisk hendelse
Settlers of the Canterbury Association aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony at Christchurch, New Zealand.
1893: Historisk hendelse
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1899: Historisk hendelse
Thousand Days' War: Columbian Liberal rebels repelled a Conservative government attack at the Battle of Peralonso.
1901: Historisk hendelse
English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.
1914: Historisk hendelse
First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.
1918: Historisk hendelse
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.
1920: Historisk hendelse
A magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck Haiyuan County, China, killing more than 250,000 people.
1922: Historisk hendelse
Gabriel Narutowicz (pictured), the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.
1930: Historisk hendelse
German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.
1938: Historisk hendelse
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.
1971: Historisk hendelse
The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.
1997: Historisk hendelse
Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.
1997: Historisk hendelse
"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
2012: Historisk hendelse
A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.
2014: Historisk hendelse
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.
🔍 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.