This is a list of selected December 16 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled December 16, 2019 featured article or the December 16, 2019 featured picture.
1689 – The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.
1707 – The last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some 800 million m3 of volcanic ash.
1761 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege.
1773 – To prevent the unloading of tea that was taxed without their consent under the Tea Act, a group of colonists destroyed it by throwing it into Boston Harbor (pictured).
1811 – 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 – The Canterbury Pilgrims aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
1901 – English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit after several publishers' rejections.
1914 – First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked British ports in North Yorkshire, resulting in 592 casualties, many of them civilians, of whom 137 died.
1930 – Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, U.S., rather than be captured by police.
1986 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev was dismissed from the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, sparking riots throughout the country.
1997 – "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
2012 – A woman in New Delhi was gang-raped on a bus, generating public protests across the country against the Government of India and the Government of Delhi for not providing adequate security for women.
This page was last edited on 15 December 2018, at 22:39 (UTC).