16 April in history

6 events that happened on 16 April, from 1457 BCE to 2007.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1457 BCE 569 years ago

    Thutmose III defeats a Canaanite coalition at Megiddo

    Pharaoh Thutmose III routed a coalition led by the king of Kadesh at Megiddo, on a date traditionally reckoned to 16 April. His annals give the first detailed account of a battle in recorded history.

    Thutmose III

  2. 1746 CE 280 years ago

    Jacobite army is crushed at Culloden

    Government troops under the Duke of Cumberland routed Charles Edward Stuart's army near Inverness in under an hour. It was the last pitched battle on British soil and was followed by harsh repression in the Highlands.

  3. 1856 CE 170 years ago

    Powers sign the Paris Declaration on maritime law

    Meeting at the Congress of Paris, the great powers agreed to abolish privateering and protect neutral goods at sea. It was the first multilateral treaty codifying the laws of naval warfare.

    Paris

  4. 1917 CE 109 years ago

    Lenin arrives at Petrograd's Finland Station

    Returning from Swiss exile with German help, Vladimir Lenin was greeted by crowds in Petrograd. His call to oppose the Provisional Government set the Bolsheviks on the road to the October Revolution.

    PetrogradFinland

  5. 1943 CE 83 years ago

    Albert Hofmann experiences the effects of LSD by accident

    Working at Sandoz in Basel, chemist Albert Hofmann absorbed a trace of LSD and felt its effects. Three days later, on 19 April, he took a deliberate dose to test it.

  6. 2007 CE 19 years ago

    Gunman kills 32 people at Virginia Tech

    A student shot dead 32 people on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, before killing himself. It was then the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in US history and led to reforms of background checks.

    Virginia

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