December 16 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Peak Conquest Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Independence Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Sports Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Research Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Emergency Situations Ministry Employees Day.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Victory Day.
🇿🇦 South Africa – Reconciliation Day.
🇧🇭 Bahrain – National Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1237 – Batu Khan begins the siege of Ryazan.
– 1431 – King Henry VI of England ascends the throne of France in Paris.
– 1598 – Li Sun-sin destroys the Japanese fleet in the Imjin War.
– 1631 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
– 1641 – Giulio Mazarin receives the title of cardinal from Pope Urban VIII.
– 1773 – Protest of American colonists, which went down in history as the “Boston Tea Party”.
– 1809 – Napoleon I forces the Senate to grant him permission to divorce Josephine of Beauharnais.
– 1838 – Battle of the Boers with the Zulus on the Nkome River (Bloody Battle).
– 1880 – Beginning of the First Anglo-Boer War.
– 1899 – Football club “Milan” is founded.
– 1931 – The Romain Gypsy Theater-Studio receives the status of a professional theater.
– 1946 – Christian Dior opens a fashion house in Paris.
– 1948 – Cambodia declares independence.
– 1986 – Youth demonstrations in Almaty.
– 1991 – The Republic of Turkey was the first country in the world to recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1991 – Kazakhstan declared its independence.
– 1992 – The Republic of Uzbekistan became a member of the International Football Federation (FIFA).
– 2002 – The Uzbek embassy in Ashgabat was stormed.
– 2008 – An exhibition dedicated to the 2200th anniversary of our capital Tashkent, Tashkent: Today and Tomorrow, was opened at the Palace of Nations in the UN Office in Geneva.
– 2011 – Riots in the city of Zhanaozen (Kazakhstan).
– 2014 – A terrorist attack in the city of Peshawar killed 145 people, most of whom were schoolchildren aged 10 to 18.
