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16 Esfand 1404

Saturday 16 Esfand 1404 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 7 March 2026, and 17 Ramadan 1447 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

No occasion is recorded for this day. Next occasion: Laylat al-Qadr (19th Ramadan Night), Sunday 17 Esfand (tomorrow).

1573 (453 years ago) A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1799 (227 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1931 (95 years ago) The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1971 (55 years ago) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
1989 (37 years ago) Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
2024 (2 years ago) Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.

1693 (333 years ago) Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)
1785 (241 years ago) Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (died 1873)
1792 (234 years ago) John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
1850 (176 years ago) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
1872 (154 years ago) Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944)
1875 (151 years ago) Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937)
1956 (70 years ago) Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
1970 (56 years ago) Rachel Weisz, English actress

161 (1865 years ago) Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (born 86)
1274 (752 years ago) Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225)
1724 (302 years ago) Pope Innocent XIII,
1932 (94 years ago) Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
1954 (72 years ago) Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
1975 (51 years ago) Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895)
1997 (29 years ago) Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
1999 (27 years ago) Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)