April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
April 28 » Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
July 9 » In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
August 4 » France: Members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
September 22 » The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
Day of death May 16, 1866
The temperature on May 16, 1866 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
February 16 » Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
July 24 » Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
July 27 » The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
August 20 » President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
August 23 » Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
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