WHAT HAPPENED ON 16. SEPTEMBER
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Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy. (16. September 307)

Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. (16. September 1400)

The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America (16. September 1620)

James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. (16. September 1701)

American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought. (16. September 1776)

American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins. (16. September 1779)

The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands. (16. September 1795)

With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain. (16. September 1810)

The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later. (16. September 1812)

Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. (16. September 1863)

The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily. (16. September 1880)

Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. (16. September 1893)

The General Motors Corporation is founded. (16. September 1908)

The American Legion is incorporated. (16. September 1919)

The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured. (16. September 1920)

The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. (16. September 1928)

World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani. (16. September 1940)

World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. (16. September 1941)

World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno. (16. September 1943)

World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. (16. September 1945)