August 16

• August 16, 1419
  Wenceslaus IV, King of Germany and Charles IV's son, dies and is succeeded by Sigismund
• August 16, 1513
  Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian crush the French at the Battle of the Spurs
• August 16, 1777
  American forces win the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont
• August 16, 1780
  American troops under General Horatio Gates are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina
• August 16, 1793
  French National Convention declares universal conscription in the Levée en masse
• August 16, 1819
  11 people are killed in the Peterloo massacre after English police charge into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 unemployed demonstrators at St. Peter's Field that have gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation
• August 16, 1829
  The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston from Siam, now Thailand, aboard the ship Sachem to be exhibited to the Western world
• August 16, 1940
  Foreign Correspondent, American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is released
• August 16, 1943
  Sicily is conquered by Allied forces during Operation Husky
• August 16, 2008
  Russia signs a French-brokered peace plan with Georgia, ending their nine-day-old conflict
• August 16, 2009
  Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a 100 m world record (9.58) at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin