Back in Time – This Day in History – April 16
1947: Grandcamp By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com , classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 1457BC: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh at the Battle of Megiddo – the first battle recorded with a reliable account. 1346: The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans. 1521: Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms assembly. 1705: Queen Anne knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1746: The Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart. 1789: President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York. 1799: Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. 1816: Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving
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