What happened to flags on 16 November
2 flags in the atlas carry this date. The sentence under each one is where that is written down, in its own article.
- Italy 1796
In a ceremony at the Piazza del Duomo on 16 November 1796, a military flag was presented to the Lombard Legion.
From Flag of Italy on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-29
- Benin 1959
The new flag was chosen on November 16, 1959, and remained unchanged when Dahomey became independent less than a year later on August 1, 1960.
From Flag of Benin on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26
How a day gets onto this site
A flag is here because a sentence in its own English Wikipedia article puts it on this date, and that sentence is printed above. Nothing was worked out from a year, and nothing was written for the occasion. Every sentence names the article it came from and the version of that article it was read in, so you can go and check it.
The calendar is still short rather than full. A third of the year has no page here, because a flag only gets a day when a sentence in its article puts something on one, and plenty of articles never do. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.