歷史上的October 16

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  October 16:World Food Day

  October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years

  Events

  456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

  690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.

  1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

  1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.

  1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.

  1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.

  1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

  1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.

  1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.

  1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

  ) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year.