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

November 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 16 is the 320^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

When this day started, 1,763,251,200 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 ‘trihectaicosagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 93 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 4,713 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 16 Historical Events

• 1491 –
  An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
• 1532 –
  Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
• 1805 –
  Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
• 1822 –
  American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
• 1857 –
  Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
• 1907 –
  Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1907 –
  Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
• 1944 –
  Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur river was launched
• 1988 –
  The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is “sovereign” but stops short of declaring independence.
• 2000 –
  Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.

Who were born on November 16?

• 42 BC –
  Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
• 1766 –
  Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
• 1811 –
  John Bright, British politician (d. 1889)
• 1889 –
  Dietrich Kraiß, German Nazi officer (d. 1944)
• 1922 –
  José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
• 1931 –
  Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
• 1947 –
  Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
• 1948 –
  Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
• 1948 –
  Horst Bertram, German footballer
• 1963 –
  Meenakshi Seshadri, Indian actress

Who died on November 16?

• 1613 –
  Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
• 1885 –
  Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)
• 1922 –
  Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
• 1971 –
  Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
• 1987 –
  Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (b. 1907)
• 1989 –
  Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
• 1993 –
  Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (b. 1939)
• 1995 –
  Jack Finney, American writer (b. 1911)
• 2005 –
  Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
• 2008 –
  Reg Varney, British actor (b. 1916)