According to Gregory calendar, on September 16, the day number in a year is 260 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 261. September 16 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Important Historical Events of 16 September in the World ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event
1400Owen Glinder was declared the Prince of Wales and instigated against the rule of Henry IV in England.
1702John Churchill was forced to surrender Venlo on the River Meuse.
1725Treaty of Hanover; Signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
1729William K. H. Friso was made Viceroy of the city of Groningen.
1747French troops captured Zoom and Bergen.
1776The American revolutionary war-but British soldiers seem to be a fox, hearing the voice of their buglas, the American colonists captured their grounds and won a victory in the Battle of Harlem Heightsin, the present New York City.
1782The Great Seal of the United States was used for the first time.
1795British forces captured Cape Town from the Netherlands.
1810Spain acquires independence from Spain after 300 years of Spain's colonial rule.
1810Palli priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores, Guanajuato, brought Grito de Dolorus to his congregation, which provoked freedom of Mexican war against Spain.
1821Mexico's independence was recognized.
1824Charles succeeded his brother Louis XVIII as the king of tenth France.
1840Hand-drawn works and papers relating to the Joseph Strud Derby Arboretum), which became England's first public park.
1848France, based in Western Europe, abolished slavery in all its colonies.
1861Savings Bank opened in British Post Office.
1892The first woman took admission to Yale University to graduate.
1906Roald Emundson of Norway discovered the magnetic south pole.
1908William Crepo Billy founded the automobile manufacturer General Motors.
1916Classical singer and actress MS awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country's largest civilian honor. Subbalakshmi was born.
1920A bomb killed 38 people on Wall Street and injured more than 400. The mystery was never resolved, but it was widely considered to be the work of radical anarchists.
1932Mahatma Gandhi started his hunger strike in efforts to end the new Birti caste separation laws.
1940World War I Italy captured the city of Sidi Bairani, the Egyptian Bataheer invasion did not carry forward.
1941Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced in favor of Mohammad Raza Pahlavi's son.
19471,930 people were killed by cyclone Kathleen in Saitama, Japan's capital.
1956Television broadcasting began in Australia.
1959Haloid Zerox started the Xerox 914, the first physician, which was invented by American physicist Cheris Carlson.
1961The United States 'National Hurricane Research Project Safeto weakened Hurricane Eicher by irrigating with silver iodide, establishing the project Stormfuri.
1963Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present Saba), and Sarwak merged into Malaysia.
1966In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang ended a 100-day hunger strike.
1967The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in eastern Kazakh.
1975Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.
1975Australia liberated Papua New Guinea.
1978The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Tabar, Iran, killed 25,000 people.
1978General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumed the presidency of Pakistan.
19787.7 Earthquake of Magnitude, Iran. It killed more than 20,000 people and dropped the city to the ground. The rescue operations continue in the hope of finding the remaining people which are buried under the rubble but can still be alive.
1986177 people died after being trapped in a gold mine in South Africa.
1987The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty, which has manufactured the ozone layer by phasing out the production of several stages for ozone vacancies.
1990The construction of the Northern Zinjiang Railway was completed between QIRUMQI and Alashankou to connect the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and to connect a large portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1994Britain banned the transmission of Northern Ireland to Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups.
1997Steve Jobs Apple returns to the computer, which he installed to run the company temporarily while searching for a permanent leader.
2003The Federal Reserve will keep the interest rates at the current 45 -year low at 1% as the core inflation is less than 37% 1.3%.
2005Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has expressed displeasure among the people, describing the rape victims in Pakistan as part of the 'worry of earning money'.
2007The plane crashed in Thailand killing 89 people.
2010The poverty rate in the United States reached a 15 -year high of 14.3 percent, which is equivalent to about 43.6 million people.
2011NASA scientists enthusiastically announced the discovery of a circumference-binary planet. A planet that revolves around two stars instead of one.
2014The Islamic State waged war against Syrian Kurdish fighters.
2014Russian tycoon and billionaire Vladimir Vaytushenkov is kept

Important Historical Events of 16 September in India ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event

Important Days of 16 September National & International Days 🏁

Day/ObservanceLevel
World Ozone DayInternational Day
International Day for Interventional CardiologyInternational Day
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone LayerInternational Day
International Coastal Cleanup DayInternational Day
Mexico Cry of Dolores Grito de Dolores Día de la IndependénciaNational Day
Papua New Guinea Independence DayNational Day

Famous People's Birthdays on 16 September 😀

Birth YearName/Category/Country
1916M S Subbulakshmi / Singer / India
1910Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha / Politician / India
1916M. S. Subbulakshmi / Singer / India
1916Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi / Vocalist / India
1954Sanjoy Bandopadhyay / Composer / India

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