SomeFacts | April 16

On this day - April 16

Battle of Megido – the first battle to have been recorded in what is ...

69 — Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor ...

73 — Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several ...

682 — Pope Leo II is elected head of the Catholic Church, although he ...

1346 — Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of ...

1520 — The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule ...

1582 — Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement ...

1746 — The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported ...

1780 — Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University ...

1799 — French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon ...

1818 — The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, ...

1838 — The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.

1847 — Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the ...

1853 — The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger ...

1858 — The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish ...

1862 — American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated ...

1862 — American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.

1863 — American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats ...

1878 — The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration ...

1881 — In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun ...

1908 — Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

1910 — The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the ...

1912 — Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane ...

1917 — Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, ...

1919 — Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna ...

1919 — Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and ...

1922 — The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the ...

1925 — During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, ...

1941 — World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of ...

1941 — World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and ...

1942 — King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta ...

1943 — Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic ...

1944 — World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing ...

1945 — More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is ...

1945 — The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high ...

1945 — World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German ...

1947 — Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to ...

1947 — An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of ...

1948 — The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

1961 — In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

1963 — U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes ...

1972 — Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, ...

2001 — India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are ...

2003 — The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new ...

2007 — Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho murders 32 people and ...

2008 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that ...

2012 — The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first ...

2012 — The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the ...

2013 — The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants ...

2013 — A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Balochistan ...

2014 — The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo ...

2016 — Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 ...

2018 — The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize ...

2024 — The historic Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, is severely ...