1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
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. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1789: Newly elected President George Washington leaves his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home and heads for New York, where he will be sworn in as the first American president. History
1799 – Napoleonic 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, establishing the border with Canada.
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: During the Siege of Vicksburg, Union gunboats commanded by Acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past the heavy barrage of Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He lost only one ship, and the operation speeded General Ulysses S. Grant's movement against Vicksburg.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1894 – Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C..
1900 – The United States Post Office issues the first books of postage stamps.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. A few months later she was killed in an accident at the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet.
1917 – Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile in Switzerland to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. One month before, Czar Nicholas II had been forced from power when Russian army troops joined a workers' revolt in Petrograd, the Russian capital.
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.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1922 – Annie Oakley sets a women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1940 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
1941 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1947 – Texas City disaster: At 9:12 a.m. in Texas City's port on Galveston Bay, a fire aboard the French freighter Grandcamp ignites ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in the ship's hold, causing a massive blast that destroyed much of the city, killed 581 people and injured thousands. History
1947 – Multimillionaire and financier Bernard Baruch, in a speech given during the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina House of Representatives, coined the term "Cold War" to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The phrase stuck, and for over 40 years it was a mainstay in the language of American diplomacy. History
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo 16, the fifth of six U.S. lunar landing missions, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its 238,000-mile journey to the moon.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1992 – The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1995 – George W. Bush names April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killed two weeks earlier.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2007 – In one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history, 32 students and teachers die after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University by Seung Hui Cho, a student at the school who later dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The attack left another 17 people wounded. History
2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced; it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2014 – The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Benedict Joseph Labre
Bernadette Soubirous
Drogo
Fructuosus of Braga
Martyrs of Zaragoza
Turibius of Astorga
Bernadette Soubirous
Drogo
Fructuosus of Braga
Martyrs of Zaragoza
Turibius of Astorga
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Isabella Gilmore (Church of England)
Molly Brant (Konwatsijayenni) (Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church)
Molly Brant (Konwatsijayenni) (Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Leonidas of Nea Epidavros, and those with him:
Charissa, Nika (Niki), Galina, Callista (Calisa, Calida), Nunechia,
Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene,[2][3] of Corinth (250 or 258)
Hieromartyrs Felix, Bishop of Spoleto,[note 3] and Januarius, Presbyter,
and Martyrs Septeminus and Fortunatus, of Lycaonia (294 or 304)
Virgin-martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia, in Thessaloniki (304)
Saints Agatho, Eutychia, Cassia and Phillippa, the Confessors,
in Thessaloniki, by imprisonment (304)
Charissa, Nika (Niki), Galina, Callista (Calisa, Calida), Nunechia,
Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene,[2][3] of Corinth (250 or 258)
Hieromartyrs Felix, Bishop of Spoleto,[note 3] and Januarius, Presbyter,
and Martyrs Septeminus and Fortunatus, of Lycaonia (294 or 304)
Virgin-martyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia, in Thessaloniki (304)
Saints Agatho, Eutychia, Cassia and Phillippa, the Confessors,
in Thessaloniki, by imprisonment (304)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
The Eighteen Martyrs of Saragossa (ca. 304):
Optatus, Lupercus, Successus, Martial, Urban, Julia, Quintilian,
Publius, Fronto, Felix, Caecilian, Eventius, Primitivus, Apodemius,
and four named Saturninus.
Virgin-martyr Encratia (Encratis, Encratide, Engracia), who suffered
terribly for Orthodoxy in Saragossa in Spain (ca. 304)
Saint Turibius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain and a valiant
defender of Orthodoxy (ca. 460)
Saint Vasius (Vaise, Vaize), a rich citizen of Saintes in France, murdered
by his relatives for giving his property to the poor (ca. 500)
Saint Turibius of Palencia, founder of the monastery of Liébana
in Asturias in Spain (ca. 528)
Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (ca. 574 or 563)
Saint Fructuosus of Braga in Iberia (665)
Saint Lambert of Saragossa, a servant who was martyred near Saragossa
by his Saracen master (ca. 900)
Saint Herveus of Tours (Hervé), monk at the monastery of St Martin of Tours,
and hermit (1021)
Saint Elias, Monk and Abbot in Ireland and Germany (1042)
Optatus, Lupercus, Successus, Martial, Urban, Julia, Quintilian,
Publius, Fronto, Felix, Caecilian, Eventius, Primitivus, Apodemius,
and four named Saturninus.
Virgin-martyr Encratia (Encratis, Encratide, Engracia), who suffered
terribly for Orthodoxy in Saragossa in Spain (ca. 304)
Saint Turibius of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain and a valiant
defender of Orthodoxy (ca. 460)
Saint Vasius (Vaise, Vaize), a rich citizen of Saintes in France, murdered
by his relatives for giving his property to the poor (ca. 500)
Saint Turibius of Palencia, founder of the monastery of Liébana
in Asturias in Spain (ca. 528)
Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (ca. 574 or 563)
Saint Fructuosus of Braga in Iberia (665)
Saint Lambert of Saragossa, a servant who was martyred near Saragossa
by his Saracen master (ca. 900)
Saint Herveus of Tours (Hervé), monk at the monastery of St Martin of Tours,
and hermit (1021)
Saint Elias, Monk and Abbot in Ireland and Germany (1042)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Theodora-Bassa, princess of Novgorod (1378)
Saint John, Fool-for-Christ, of Verkhoturye (1701)
New Martyr Michael Burliotes of Smyrna, by beheading (1772)
New Monk-martyr Christopher of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Adrianople (1818)
New martyrs Christodoulos and Anastasia, in Achaia (1821)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Saint John, Fool-for-Christ, of Verkhoturye (1701)
New Martyr Michael Burliotes of Smyrna, by beheading (1772)
New Monk-martyr Christopher of Dionysiou, Mt. Athos, at Adrianople (1818)
New martyrs Christodoulos and Anastasia, in Achaia (1821)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Ilyin Chernigov" (1658)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Tambov (1692)
Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Tambov (1692)
Malankara Orthodox
Commemoration of Marthoma II
Commemoration of Marthoma II
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