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Year 456

Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

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Year 690

Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.

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Year 955

Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg.

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Year 1384

Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

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Year 1590

Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.

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Year 1780

Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.

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Year 1793

Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

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Year 1793

The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.

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Year 1813

The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.

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Year 1834

Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

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Birthdays on 16 October 224

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Gian Galeazzo Visconti

b. 1351 – d. 1402

Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)

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William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk

b. 1396 – d. 1450

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)

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James II of Scotland

b. 1430 – d. 1460

James II of Scotland (d. 1460)

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Gasparo Contarini

b. 1483 – d. 1542

Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)

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Niwa Nagahide

b. 1535 – d. 1585

Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)

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Luke Wadding

b. 1588 – d. 1657

Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)

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Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy

b. 1605 – d. 1677

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)

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Pierre Paul Puget

b. 1620 – d. 1694

Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)

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Anna Waser

b. 1678 – d. 1714

Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)

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Jan Dismas Zelenka

b. 1679 – d. 1745

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745)

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András Hadik

b. 1710 – d. 1790

András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)

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Giovanni Arduino (geologist)

b. 1714 – d. 1795

Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)

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Deaths on 16 October 124

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Fú Jiān

d. 385 (b. 337)

Fú Jiān, emperor of the Chinese Di state Former Qin (b. 337)

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Lullus

d. 786

Lullus, archbishop of Mainz

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Pedro González de Lara

d. 1130

Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate

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Amadeus V, Count of Savoy

d. 1323 (b. 1249)

Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (b. 1249)

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Antipope Nicholas V

d. 1333 (b. 1260)

Antipope Nicholas V (b. 1260)

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Louis, King of Sicily

d. 1355 (b. 1337)

Louis, King of Sicily (b. 1337)

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Anne of Gloucester

d. 1438 (b. 1383)

Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)

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Luca Signorelli

d. 1523

Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450)

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

d. 1553 (b. 1472)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)

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Hugh Latimer

d. 1555 (b. 1487)

Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b. 1487)

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Nicholas Ridley (martyr)

d. 1555 (b. 1500)

Nicholas Ridley, English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)

Pope Gregory XIV

d. 1591 (b. 1535)

Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)

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