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The following events took place on May 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 218

  Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year-old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
• 1204

  Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
• 1527

  The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
• 1532

  Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• 1568

  Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
• 1584

  Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
• 1770

  A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
• 1771

  The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
• 1811

  Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
• 1812

  Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.
• 1822

  Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
• 1834

  The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
• 1843

  The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
• 1866

  The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
• 1868

  United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
• 1874

  A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
• 1877

  May 1877 political crisis in France.
• 1888

  Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
• 1891

  The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
• 1914

  The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
• 1918

  The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
• 1919

  A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
• 1920

  In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
• 1929

  In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
• 1943

  The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• 1951

  The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• 1953

  American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
• 1960

  Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• 1961

  Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• 1966

  The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

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