December 16th in History
December 16th in History
- 1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes 'Lord protector of England'
- 1773: Boston Tea Party' , when the 'Sons of Liberty' dumped 18,000 worth of tea in the Boston harbor
- 1809: Marriage between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine disolved after thirteen years
- 1952: Lord Mountbatten appointed as chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean
December 16th birthdays
- 1485: Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife
- 1775: Jane Austen, English novelist
- 1857: Edward Emerson Barnard, US astronomer
- 1882: Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer
