Today in History
On This Day In History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Nov 16, 13 |
General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
Nov 16, 534 |
A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. |
Nov 16, 1380 |
French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever |
Nov 16, 1491 |
An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects. |
Nov 16, 1532 |
Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca |
Nov 16, 1572 |
Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and plunder Zutphen, Nmetherlands |
Nov 16, 1632 |
Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein |
Nov 16, 1676 |
1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass |
Nov 16, 1677 |
French troops occupy Freiburg |
Nov 16, 1700 |
Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia |
Nov 16, 1763 |
English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel |
Nov 16, 1764 |
Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac |
Nov 16, 1771 |
West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname |
Nov 16, 1776 |
1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Ft St Eustatius |
Nov 16, 1776 |
British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution |
Nov 16, 1798 |
Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress |
Nov 16, 1801 |
First edition of New York Evening Post |
Nov 16, 1805 |
Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French |
Nov 16, 1824 |
NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business |
Nov 16, 1835 |
Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society |
Nov 16, 1840 |
New Zealand officially becomes British colony |
Nov 16, 1841 |
Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC) |
Nov 16, 1849 |
A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. |
Nov 16, 1856 |
Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens |
Nov 16, 1859 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza" premieres in Moscow |
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