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This is a list of selected January 16 anniversaries that appear in 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 will soon 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 four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
National Religious Freedom Day in the United States stub
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba. refimprove section
1120 – The Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. {{Refimprove}}
1605 – Book One of Don Quixote, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, was first published in Madrid, Spain. plot summary too long
1809Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain. {{refimprove}}
1917World War I: The German Empire sent the Zimmermann Telegram, a diplomatic proposal to Mexico to make war against the United States, which led in part to the U.S. entering the war. refimprove section
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. {{more footnotes}}
1991Operation Desert Storm: A United Nations-led coalition began an assault on Iraqi forces to free Kuwait. Tagged with {{refimprove-section}}
1992 – The Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed, ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. {{refimprove}}

Eligible

January 16: Mattu Pongal (Tamils, 2012); Magen David Day in Israel; Teachers' Day in Thailand; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States (2012)

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