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On April 16, -1457: Battle of Megiddo: The first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

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Battle of Megiddo: The first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

The 1450s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1459, BC to December 31, 1450, BC.

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Born on April 16

Sadie Sink 2002– American actress (born 2002)
Anya Taylor-Joy 1996– Actress (born 1996)
Taylor Townsend 1996– American tennis player (born 1996)
Chance the Rapper 1993– American rapper (born 1993)
Mirai Nagasu 1993– American figure skater (born 1993)
Brian Poe Llamanzares 1992– Filipino Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Public Servant (born 1992)
Nolan Arenado 1991– American baseball player (born 1991)
Kim Kyung-jung 1991– South Korean footballer (born 1991)
Reggie Jackson 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
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Vangelis Mantzaris 1990– Greek basketball player (born 1990)
Tony McQuay 1990– American sprinter
Kyle Okposo 1988– American ice hockey player (born 1988)
Cenk Akyol 1987– Turkish basketball player (born 1987)
Aaron Lennon 1987– English footballer (born 1987)
Shinji Okazaki 1986– Japanese footballer (born 1986)
Peter Regin 1986– Danish ice hockey player (born 1986)
Epke Zonderland 1986– Dutch gymnast
Luol Deng 1985– British basketball player (born 1985)

People

Died on April 16

Justin Fairfax American politican (1979–2026)
Alex Manninger Austrian footballer (1977–2026)
Nora Aunor Filipino actress and singer (1953–2025)
Carl Erskine American baseball player (1926–2024)
Bob Graham American politician (1936–2024)
Andrew Peacock Australian politician (1939–2021)
Helen McCrory British actress (1968–2021)
Liam Scarlett British choreographer (1986–2021)
John Dawes British Lions & Wales international rugby union player and coach (1940–2021)
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Harry Anderson American actor, comedian, and magician (1952–2018)
Valery Belousov Russian ice hockey player and coach
Stanislav Gross Czech politician (1969–2015)
Gyude Bryant Head of state of Liberia from 2003 to 2006
Aulis Rytkönen Finnish footballer (1929-2014)
Ernst Florian Winter American historian and politologist (1923–2014)
Charles Bruzon Gibraltarian politician and priest
Ali Kafi Algerian politician
Siegfried Ludwig Austrian politician (1926–2013)

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Every April 16 on record

  1. -1457 Battle of Megiddo: The first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

    Decade

    The 1450s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1459, BC to December 31, 1450, BC.

  2. 69 Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide.

    Calendar year

    AD 69 (LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the consulship of Galba and Vinius. The denomination AD 69 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  3. 73 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.

    Calendar year

    AD 73 (LXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitian and Messalinus. The denomination AD 73 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  4. 556 Pope Pelagius I is consecrated following Imperial approval by Emperor Justinian I.

    Byzantine domination of the Roman papacy, 537 to 752

    The Byzantine Papacy was a period of Byzantine domination of the Roman Papacy from 537 to 752, when popes required the approval of the Byzantine Emperor for their episcopal consecration, and many popes were chosen from the apocrisiarii or the inhabitants of Byzantine-ruled Greece, Syria, or Sicily. Justinian I reconquered the Italian peninsula in the Gothic War (535–554) and appointed the next three popes, a practice that would be continued by his successors and later be delegated to the Exarchate of Ravenna.

  5. 682 Pope Leo II is elected head of the Catholic Church, although he will not be consecrated until 17 August.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 682 to 683

    Pope Leo II was the Bishop of Rome from 17 August 682 to his death on 28 June 683. One of the popes of the Byzantine Papacy, he is described by a contemporary biographer as both just and learned. He is commemorated as a saint in the Roman Martyrology.

  6. 1346 Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
  7. 1520 The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
  8. 1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
  9. 1746 The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.
  10. 1780 Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
  11. 1797 The Spithead mutiny begins, immobilising the Channel fleet.
  12. 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
  13. 1818 The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
  14. 1838 The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
  15. 1847 Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
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  1. 1853 The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
  2. 1858 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
  3. 1862 American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
  4. 1862 American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
  5. 1863 American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
  6. 1878 The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
  7. 1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  8. 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
  9. 1910 The oldest indoor ice hockey arena used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  10. 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  11. 1917 Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  12. 1919 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  13. 1919 Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
  14. 1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
  15. 1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

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