📜 This Day in History
November 16
534The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, was published.- 1632King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1914World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the Battle of Kolubara.
- 1959The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
- 1992In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain, including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
- 2020The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.
