What are the important events that happened on April 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 16 is the 106^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 3, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,744,761,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 307 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,499 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 16 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1346 –
  Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
• 1582 –
  Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
• 1858 –
  The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: The Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
• 1912 –
  Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 1947 –
  Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1990 –
  The “Doctor of Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
• 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 10 new member states to the European Union.

Who were born on April 16?

• 1646 –
  Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
• 1895 –
  Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
• 1907 –
  Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman (d. 1964)
• 1919 –
  Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
• 1942 –
  Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
• 1953 –
  J. Neil Schulman, American writer
• 1954 –
  Ellen Barkin, American actress
• 1956 –
  Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
• 1974 –
  Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
• 1982 –
  Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter

Who died on April 16?

• 1645 –
  Tobias Hume, English composer
• 1828 –
  Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
• 1850 –
  Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
• 1859 –
  Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
• 1879 –
  Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (b. 1844)
• 1888 –
  Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
• 1904 –
  Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
• 2005 –
  Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
• 2007 –
  G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
• 2007 –
  Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)