THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 16
December 16 in history
What happened on December 16: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1773, 1864, 1944 and 1972, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Boston Tea Party
16 Dec 1773 — Colonists threw three shiploads of taxed tea into Boston harbor. Parliament responded with the Coercive Acts; the colonies in turn answered by gathering a Congress.
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— Battle of Nashville
15–16 Dec 1864 — Thomas leaves his works and attacks the force that survived Franklin. The defeat effectively ends the Confederacy’s second great army and decides the war in the West.
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Out of the fog of the Ardennes, Hitler’s last reserves strike west. The Bulge will consume them within a month.
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— Wiriyamu massacre
16 Dec 1972 — Portuguese troops massacre the villagers of Wiriyamu in Mozambique. Missionaries expose the killing, bringing shame on Lisbon before the world on the eve of its own revolution. Remember them.
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