#TodayInHistory – January 16
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January 16 – Some important events on this day
27 BC ππΌ The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate
1412 ππΌ The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy
1492 ππΌ The first grammar of a modern language, Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1547 ππΌ Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow
1605 ππΌ The first edition of “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
1749 ππΌ Hoax article advertising fictitious theatrical performer “The Bottle Conjuror” drew huge crowds to the Haymarket Theatre, London, whose inevitable non-appearance caused a riot. It’s alleged the Duke of Montagu perpetrated the fiasco to win a bet
1793 ππΌ French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution
1913 ππΌ British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening)
1920 ππΌ 1st assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris
2006 ππΌ Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.