What happened on 16 April?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1945 Battle of Berlin Soviet final assault on Berlin; Hitler commits suicide in the Führerbunker; Reich falls.
2. 1889 Born: Charlie Chaplin British silent film comedian; created the Little Tramp.
3. 1746 Battle of Culloden Cumberland's redcoats crush Jacobite Highland army on Drumossie Moor; ends Jacobitism and presages Highland Clearances.
4. 73 Siege of Masada Jewish Sicarii rebels hold the desert fortress against Roman siegeworks until mass suicide on the brink of capture.
5. 1917 Nivelle Offensive Failed French offensive on the Aisne triggers the French mutinies.
6. 1917 Lenin returns on the sealed train Germany ships its enemy's most dangerous exile home: Lenin crosses wartime Germany in a sealed carriage from Zurich and steps onto the platform at Petrograd's Finland Station to de
7. 1209 Founding of the Franciscan Order Francis of Assisi founds the Order of Friars Minor, embracing apostolic poverty.
8. 69 Otho falls at Bedriacum Beaten by Vitellius's Rhine legions in northern Italy — with his own reinforcements a day's march away — Otho kills himself at dawn to spare Rome further civil war, three months in
9. 1963 King writes the Letter from Birmingham Jail Jailed for marching without a permit and rebuked by white clergymen for impatience, King answers in the margins of a newspaper: justice too long delayed is justice denied, and one
10. 1961 Castro declares the revolution socialist At the funeral for the victims of the pre-invasion air strikes — with the Bay of Pigs landing hours away — Castro says publicly for the first time what Washington has long suspecte
11. 1949 The Easter Parade To prove the point beyond argument, the airlift delivers 12,941 tonnes of coal in twenty-four hours — a plane landing in Berlin every 62 seconds. The city is now better supplied by
12. 2017 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum Voters narrowly approve replacing Turkey's parliamentary system with an executive presidency, concentrating power in Erdoğan.
13. 1763 George Grenville's premiership Grenville taxes the American colonies through the Sugar and Stamp Acts, lighting the fuse of revolution.
14. 2018 Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer for DAMN. First non-classical or jazz album to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.