TDIH - January 16 This Day in (Medieval) History: January 16 550 – An Ostrogoth army led by King Totila captured Rome after members of the starving garrison opened the gates. Totila's troops looted the city and killed most of the male citizens. 929 – The Caliphate of Cordoba was created under Abd-ar-Rahman III. 1120 – The Council of Nablus was convened by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem. The council consisted of both ecclesiastic and secular lords and created a set of written laws for the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1362 – A cyclonic flood along the coastlines of the North Sea, nicknamed "Saint Marcellus's Flood" or the "Grote Mandrenke" in Saxon, killed about 25,000 people in the Netherlands, Denmark, northern Germany and British Isles. 1547 - Czar Ivan IV of Russia was crowned at Assumption Cathedral in Moscow. 1556 - King Felipe II of Spain was crowned.