Monday, January 16, 2017

Jan 16, in history



27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.

1412 - The Medici family is appointed o
fficial banker of the Papacy.

1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow

1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution

1920 - 1st assembly of the League of Nations (Paris)

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