Events for March 16

March 16, 1935

John J. R Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist and winner of 1923 Nobel Prize, died.

John James Rickard Macleod, FRS, FRSE (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935), was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.

March 16, 1309

King Robert the Bruce convened his first parliament, at St Andrews.

Robert the Bruce saw that Scotland need to be restructured, and the people needed a decisive leader to rally around. To do this, Bruce called a parliament at St. Andrews on March 16, 1309 — the first parliament in 18 years.

March 16, 1864

Richard Roberts Welsh, inventor and developer of textile machinery, died

Richard Roberts (22 April 1789 – 11 March 1864) was a Welsh patternmaker and engineer whose development of high-precision machine tools contributed to the birth of production engineering and mass production.

March 16, 1640

Charles I's second Irish parliament meets

The Parliament 1640–1649, also called Parliament 1639–1648 using an unadjusted Old Style (O.S.) calendar, was the second of the two Irish parliaments of King Charles I of England. It voted taxes in 1640 and was then overshadowed by the Irish Rebellion of 1641. It was legally dissolved by the King’s death in 1649.