What happened on 16 November?

10 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 burns Jan Hus.
4. 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca Pizarro's 168 conquistadors capture the Inca emperor in his own camp; 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 launched modern African literature.
8. 2022 Artemis I circles the Moon Fifty years after Apollo 17, the uncrewed Orion capsule flies farther than any human-rated spacecraft — the opening move of the return to the Moon.
9. 1896 Born: Oswald Mosley Britain's fascist leader: brilliant Labour minister turned founder of the British Union of Fascists, interned through the Second World War, unrepentant to the end — the great cauti
10. 1756 The Duke of Devonshire's premiership A seven-month caretaker ministry formed to bring Pitt the Elder into government.