📅 Today in HistoryApril 16

Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide.

Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish-Roman War.

Pope Leo II is elected head of the Catholic Church, although he will not be consecrated until 17 August.

Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.

The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.

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.

Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.