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16*29

16*29, also known as the Carti Uzi Tape or Uzi Carti Tape, is an unreleased collaborative mixtape by Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, announced in 2017.

160 Una

160 Una (仙后星) is a main-belt asteroid about 81 km across, discovered 1876 by C. H. F. Peters; dark C-type, 11.03-hour rotation, occulted a star over eastern Australia in 2019.

1600

1600 saw Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory at the Battle of Sekigahara end Japan's Sengoku period, Elizabeth I charter the East India Company, and Giordano Bruno burned in Rome.

1600 eruption of Huaynaputina

The 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina was a VEI 6 plinian eruption in southern Peru that buried at least 10 villages, killed about 1,500 people, and cooled the Northern Hemisphere in 1601.

1600 meters

The 1600 meters, also called the metric mile stand-in, is a US high school track event of exactly four 400-meter laps, 9.344 m short of a true mile; not run by World Athletics, USATF, or the NCAA.

1603 Manila massacre

The 1603 Manila massacre (馬尼拉大屠殺) was the killing of tens of thousands of Chinese residents of Spanish Manila in late 1603, after an uprising triggered by a Ming embassy seeking gold.

1604 Arica earthquake

The 1604 Arica earthquake was a megathrust earthquake, magnitude an estimated 8.5 to 9.0, that struck southern Peru and northern Chile on 24 November 1604 and generated a destructive tsunami.

1605 Enshunada earthquake

The 1605 Enshunada earthquake, also called the Keicho earthquake (慶長地震), struck Japan on 3 February 1605, generating a tsunami along the Pacific coast with little ground shaking.

1605 Guangdong earthquake

The 1605 Guangdong earthquake, also called the Qiongshan or Qiongzhou earthquake, was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck Qiongshan on Hainan Island on July 13, 1605, killing about 2,000 people.

1605 Nankaido earthquake

The 1605 Nankaido earthquake, also called the Keicho earthquake (慶長地震), was a Japanese "tsunami earthquake" whose tsunami struck from Boso to Kyushu in 1605, killing over 2000.

1606 Jianshui earthquake

The 1606 Jianshui earthquake (建水地震) struck Jianshui County, Yunnan, China, on 30 November 1606, during the Ming dynasty's Wanli reign, causing heavy casualties and months of aftershocks.

16070 Charops

16070 Charops (1999 RB101) is a dark D-type Jupiter Trojan asteroid at Jupiter's L5 point, about 63 km across, discovered 8 September 1999 by LINEAR, rotation period 20.24 hours, named after a Lycian soldier of the Trojan War.

1608 Gilan earthquake

The 1608 Gilan earthquake, also called the Alamutrud earthquake, was a large earthquake that struck the western Alborz mountains of northern Iran on April 20, 1608.

1609 Jiuquan earthquake

The 1609 Jiuquan earthquake, also called the Hongyapu earthquake (红崖堡地震), was a magnitude 7¼ earthquake near Jiuquan, Gansu, China, in July 1609 that killed more than 840 people.

160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)

The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), known as the Night Stalkers, is the US Army's special operations aviation unit, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

161 Athor

161 Athor (A876 HA) is a 41-km M-type main-belt asteroid with a 3.67-year orbit, 7.28-hour rotation, albedo 0.230, namesake of the Athor X-complex family, radar-detected at Arecibo in 2013.

1611 Aidu earthquake

The 1611 Aidu (Aizu) earthquake was a magnitude 6.9 inland earthquake in the Aizu Basin of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, collapsing over 20,000 houses and killing about 3,700 people.

1611 Sanriku earthquake

The 1611 Sanriku earthquake (慶長三陸地震, Keichō Sanriku jishin), also called the Keicho Oshu earthquake, struck off northeastern Japan in 1611, generating a tsunami that killed several thousand people.

1614 Azores earthquake

The 1614 Azores earthquake struck Terceira Island on 24 May 1614, destroying the eastern part of the island, killing about 200 people, and triggering a local tsunami.

1616 Sanriku earthquake

The 1616 Sanriku earthquake, known in Japanese as the Genwa 2 Sendai earthquake (元和二年仙台地震), was a magnitude 7.0 quake off Miyagi Prefecture that damaged Sendai Castle.

1618 Bombay earthquake

The 1618 Bombay earthquake is a reported seismic event in Bombay (present-day Mumbai), India, assigned magnitude 6.9 and 2,000 deaths, which modern seismology has concluded was actually a storm.

1618 Dughabad earthquake

The 1618 Dughabad earthquake was a destructive earthquake of about magnitude 6.5 that destroyed the village of Dughabad in Khorasan, northeastern Iran, killing roughly 700 to 800 people in May 1619.

1619 Trujillo earthquake

The 1619 Trujillo earthquake, the largest recorded in northern Peru, struck on 14 February 1619 and destroyed the colonial city of Trujillo, killing several hundred people.

162173 Ryugu

162173 Ryugu, provisionally designated 1999 JU3, is a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid about 0.9 km wide. Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft sampled it, returning 5.4 grams to Earth in December 2020.

1622 Pingliang earthquake

The 1622 Pingliang earthquake, or Guyuan earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck northern Guyuan in Ningxia on 25 October 1622, killing more than 12,000 people.

1626 Shanxi earthquake

The 1626 Shanxi earthquake was a magnitude 7 earthquake that destroyed the walled town of Lingqiu, Shanxi, China, killing more than 5,200 people on 28 June 1626.

1627 Lesina earthquake

The 1627 Lesina earthquake struck the Gargano promontory in Apulia, Italy, on 30 July 1627, killing thousands and triggering the strongest tsunami in Adriatic history.

1630 eruption of Furnas

The 1630 eruption of Furnas was a VEI 5 eruption of Furnas volcano on São Miguel in the Azores, killing about 200 people and destroying the settlement of Furnas.

1631 eruption of Vesuvius

The 1631 eruption of Vesuvius was a sub-Plinian eruption that began on 16 December 1631, killed about 4,000 people, and ended roughly 500 years of quiescence.

1631 Naples earthquake

The 1631 Naples earthquake was the seismic sequence felt in Naples and the Vesuvius area before and during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that began on 16 December 1631.