Historical Events on November 16(Part-1)

• 534 Second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus published
• 1380 French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
• 1491 An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, 
• concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public 
• execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
• 1572 Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique 
• Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and plunder Zutphen, Netherlands
• 1632 Battle of Lützen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Albrect 
• von Wallenstein
• 1676 1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts
• 1677 French troops occupy Freiburg
• 1700 Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
• 1763 English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel
• 1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
• 1771 West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
• 1776 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Fort St Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean isalnd)
• 1776 British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution