What happened on 16 November?

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

1. 1532 Spanish conquest of the Incas Pizarro's expedition into the Inca Empire, the capture and execution of Atahualpa at Cajamarca, the conquest of Cusco and the long Neo-Inca resistance at Vilcabamba.
2. 1532 Spanish conquest of the Incas begins Conventional start of Spanish conquest of the Incas.
3. 1414 Council of Constance Ecumenical council ends the Western Schism and condemns Jan Hus, who is burned at the stake.
4. 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca Pizarro's 168 conquistadors capture the Inca emperor in the plaza of Cajamarca; the room of gold ransom is paid; Atahualpa executed.
5. 1632 Battle of Lützen (1632) Swedish Protestants defeat imperial-Catholic Wallenstein; King Gustavus Adolphus killed in the fight.
6. 1717 Born: Jean le Rond d'Alembert Co-editor of the Encyclopédie; pioneering mathematician and physicist.
7. 1930 Born: Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist whose Things Fall Apart is often credited with launching modern African literature.
8. 1917 Clemenceau becomes prime minister With France reeling from mutinies and defeatism, the 76-year-old 'Tiger' takes power promising only 'war, nothing but war' — and wins it.
9. 1885 Execution of Louis Riel Convicted of high treason after the North-West Rebellion, Riel is hanged at Regina; French Canada sees a martyr, and the execution poisons relations between Quebec and Ottawa for g
10. 2000 Death of DJ Screw Houston's chopped-and-screwed inventor dies aged 29.
11. 1896 Born: Oswald Mosley Britain's fascist leader: brilliant Labour minister turned founder of the British Union of Fascists, interned from 1940 to 1943, unrepentant to the end — the great cautionary tale
12. 1756 The Duke of Devonshire's premiership A seven-month caretaker ministry formed to bring Pitt the Elder into government.