THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 16
July 16 in history
What happened on July 16: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1212, 1863 and 1945, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
16 Jul 1212 — a combined Christian army shatters the Almohads in the Sierra Morena. The hinge of the peninsula: al-Andalus never recovers, and within forty years is reduced to Granada alone.
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— New York City draft riots
13–16 Jul 1863 — Rioters against a draft the rich can buy out of ($300) turn on the city’s Black residents: at least 105 dead and a Colored Orphan Asylum burned before troops from Gettysburg restore order. The war’s hatreds did not stop at the front line. Remember.
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5:29 a.m., Alamogordo: Trinity, the first nuclear explosion. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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