Battle of Megiddo – the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 16 April 2026Decade
The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 16 April 17461746 battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.📜 WARS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 16 April 17991792–1802 wars
The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 1818Upper house of the US Congress
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 16 April 1838Land warfare force of France
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 18621862 U.S. federal law ending slavery in DC
American Civil War: Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 18621861–1865 conflict in the United States
American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 1863Military campaign of the American Civil War
Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd📜 WARS🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ 16 April 19171917–1922 civil war in Russia
Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 16 April 1919Conflict between Poland and Lithuania, 1919-1920
The Treaty of Rapallo📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 16 April 1922Treaty re-establishing diplomatic and military relations between Russia and Germany
World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 16 April 1941Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization (1929–45)
World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 16 April 19411939–1945 global conflict
More than 7📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 16 April 1945German military transport ship; sank 1945, killing thousands
The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 1945Land service branch of the U.S. military
World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 16 April 1945Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
Bernard Baruch first applies the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 1947American businessman (1870–1965)