| 29251 | March 16 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops. |
| 29252 | March 16 | Event | 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. |
| 29253 | March 16 | Event | 1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155. |
| 29254 | March 16 | Event | 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons. |
| 29255 | March 16 | Event | 1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. |
| 29256 | March 16 | Event | 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors. |
| 29257 | March 16 | Event | 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. |
| 29258 | March 16 | Event | 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. |
| 29259 | March 16 | Event | 1983 – Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany. |
| 29260 | March 16 | Event | 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity. |
| 29261 | March 16 | Event | 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. |
| 29262 | March 16 | Event | 1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. |
| 29263 | March 16 | Event | 1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people. |
| 29264 | March 16 | Event | 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews. |
| 29265 | March 16 | Event | 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops. |
| 29266 | March 16 | Event | 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. |
| 29267 | March 16 | Event | 2003 – Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah. |
| 29268 | March 16 | Event | 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. |
| 29269 | March 16 | Event | 2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. |
| 29270 | March 16 | Birth | 1338 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, English son of Katherine Mortimer, Countess of Warwick (d. 1401) |
| 29271 | March 16 | Birth | 1399 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435) |
| 29272 | March 16 | Birth | 1445 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (d. 1510) |
| 29273 | March 16 | Birth | 1473 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541) |
| 29274 | March 16 | Birth | 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (d. 1647) |
| 29275 | March 16 | Birth | 1585 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618) |
| 29276 | March 16 | Birth | 1631 – René Le Bossu, French author and critic (d. 1680) |
| 29277 | March 16 | Birth | 1654 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist and scholar (d. 1704) |
| 29278 | March 16 | Birth | 1663 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, French composer and educator (d. 1743) |
| 29279 | March 16 | Birth | 1729 – Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg (d. 1818) |
| 29280 | March 16 | Birth | 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848) |