Template:Selected anniversaries/January 16
1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1501: Mathematician Adam Ries publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1731: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates Gnomon algorithm textbook from English into French.
1889: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1953: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov witnesses spontaneous cryptographic numen, develops new theory of quantum electronics.
1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1969: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is revealed as cryptographic numen.
2003: HAL 9000 blames "inherent unreliability of cryptographic numen" for death of crew and passengers.
2015: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.