SomeFacts | May 16

On this day - May 16

946 — Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother ...

1204 — Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor ...

1364 — Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French ...

1426 — Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes King of Ava.

1527 — The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and ...

1532 — Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

1568 — Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

1584 — Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish ...

1739 — The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the ...

1770 — The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old ...

1771 — The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War ...

1777 — Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds ...

1811 — Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom ...

1812 — Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the ...

1822 — Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of ...

1832 — Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo ...

1834 — The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and ...

1842 — The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest ...

1863 — American Civil War: During the Vicksburg campaign, the ...

1866 — The United States Congress establishes the nickel.

1868 — The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew ...

1874 — A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of ...

1877 — The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the ...

1888 — Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which ...

1891 — The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in ...

1916 — The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French ...

1918 — The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, ...

1919 — A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read ...

1920 — In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.

1925 — The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's ...

1929 — In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

1943 — Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with ...

1943 — The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

1945 — Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in ...

1951 — The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin ...

1954 — Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag.

1959 — The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for ...

1960 — Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby ...

1961 — Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the ...

1966 — The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 ...

1969 — Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.

1972 — An Antonov An-24 crashes into a kindergarten building in ...

1974 — Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.

1975 — Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the ...

1988 — A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. ...

1991 — Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint ...

1997 — Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.

2003 — In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people ...

2005 — Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National ...

2011 — STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy ...

2014 — Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba ...

2025 — A devastating EF4 tornado kills nineteen people in Southeast ...