User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/June 16

June 16

 * 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses
 * 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
 * 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
 * 1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
 * 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France