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, 29,079,360 minutes 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

• 1178 BC –
  The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.
• 1521 –
  Martin Luther’s first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
• 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.
• 1858 –
  The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
• 1863 –
  American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 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.

Who were born on April 16?

• 1660 –
  Sir Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
• 1871 –
  John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
• 1886 –
  Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
• 1918 –
  Dick Gibson, British racing driver
• 1943 –
  Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
• 1946 –
  Margot Adler, American journalist
• 1950 –
  David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1971 –
  Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
• 1972 –
  Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player
• 1982 –
  Boris Diaw, French basketball player

Who died on April 16?

• 924 –
  Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
• 1689 –
  Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
• 1879 –
  Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (b. 1844)
• 1914 –
  George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
• 1973 –
  Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
• 2002 –
  Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2002 –
  Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
• 2005 –
  Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
• 2007 –
  Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 –
  Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)