THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 16
September 16 in history
What happened on September 16: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1408, 1810, 1908 and 1999, each linked to the map that shows it.
A wedding at Hvalsey church in Greenland: the last written record of the Norse colony that had farmed its fjords for four centuries.
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— Cry of Dolores
16 Sep 1810 — Father Hidalgo rings his parish bell and calls New Spain to rise; within weeks 80,000 follow him. The revolt outlives his execution.
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— Buchlau bargain
16 Sep 1908 — At Buchlau castle in Moravia the foreign ministers Aehrenthal and Izvolsky strike a secret deal: Russia will accept Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia in return for help opening the Straits to Russian warships. Vienna annexes three weeks later, and Russia never gets the Straits.
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— Russian apartment bombings
4–16 Sep 1999 — Bombs destroy apartment blocks in Buynaksk, twice in Moscow and finally here in Volgodonsk, killing about 300 people in all. The government blamed Chechen militants and launched a second war. A disputed incident in Ryazan, where security officers planted what they called a training device, has kept questions about responsibility alive.
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