Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 16
April 16: Easter in Western Christianity, Mawlid in Shi'a Islam (2006)
- 1746 - The Battle of Culloden, the final battle of the Jacobite Rising, was fought in Culloden, Scotland.
- 1853 - Indian Railways launched its first passenger train service.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin (pictured) returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
- 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1947 - Texas City Disaster: Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in Texas City's port exploded.