Historical Events on December 16

1460 skirmish during the Wars of the Roses

Military action in Malaya in the 1540s

1598 last major battle of the Japanese invasions of Korea

1637 battle at Kumeyki

Part of the Great Trek, fought on the bank of the Ncome river in South Africa in 1838

Earthquake struck Andijan Province, Uzbekistan on December 16, 1902

1912 naval battle of the First Balkan War

Attack by the Imperial German Navy on 16 December 1914

The 1920 Hayuan earthquake

1929 Australian civil disorder

Battle of Borneo — 1941 battle

1943 military action on the Eastern Front in World War II

1944 battle during World War Two

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — treaty adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966

Carried out by the Sri Lanka Army in December 1984

Copenhagen December Riot

Earthquake in Sweden

2012 Delhi gang rape case — gang rape, torture, and murder incident

2014 Peshawar school attack — terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar

2015 Geldermalsen riot

2015 military operation in the District of Nihm

Battle of the islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso

Natural disaster in Chile

Gas price protests in Jordan

School attack in Moscow, Russia