1790
The Compromise of 1790
significantly established DC as the federal capital location.
On this day
July 16
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on July 16 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
3 events
3 centuries
3 countries
1895
Osasco was founded in 1895
by Antônio Agu (1864-1928, Italian immigrant from Osasco, Piedmont).
1918
July 16-17, 1918
Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 by Russian and Saxon engineer-administrators as an iron-and-copper works city named for Empress Catherine I (Catherine the Great's predecessor, wife of Peter the Great) and the patron saint St Catherine; the city was a planned industrial city…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →