Events on 16 May 40
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Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus. She declares her 14-year-old grandson Elagabalus to be emperor of Rome. Macrinus is later deposed.
Year 946
Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
Year 1204
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
Year 1527
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
Year 1584
Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
Year 1770
A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
Year 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.
Year 1811
Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
Birthdays on 16 May 186
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Deaths on 16 May 83
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