A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Otho's Noble Sacrifice: The Battle of Bedriacum (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)


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A Daily Dose of History (16 Apr 2025) Today's historical events:
  • Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
  • Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish-Roman War.
  • 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. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
  • 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.
  • The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
  • The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
  • Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
  • The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
  • The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

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