User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/January 16

January 16

 * 1761 - British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
 * 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
 * 1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
 * 1809 - Peninsular War: The British withdraw from the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
 * 1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States
 * 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.