Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 16
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- 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus (pictured) was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.
- 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba.
- 1129 – The Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore at the Battle of Corunna in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
- 1909 – The Nimrod Expedition led by Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton reached the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole.
- 1969 – Student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia one year earlier. He died three days later from the third-degree burns he suffered.
- 1986 – The Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization that develops and promotes Internet standards, held its first meeting, consisting of twenty-one United States-government-funded researchers.
- 2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in as President of Liberia, becoming Africa's first female elected head of state.
More events: January 15 – January 16 – January 17
