This Day in History
Today: April 16, 2026
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Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.[1][2]
69
Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide.[3]
73
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.[4]
1346
Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.[5]
1520
The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.[6]
1582
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
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.[7]
1780
Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1799
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
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