Memory of the day: Khedive Ismail inaugurates Suez Canal in solemn ceremony in Egypt’s Ismailia in 1869

CAIRO – 16 November 2021: In the following lines, ET reviews the most important world events that took place on November 16.

636 - The beginning of the Battle of Qadisiyah between the Muslims led by Saad bin Abi Waqqas and the Persians led by Rustam Farrokhzad, and with it the Sassanid era ended.

1272 – While traveling in the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward I becomes King of England upon the death of Henry III, and assumes the throne upon his return two years later.

1626 - Native Americans sell Manhattan Island for $24 worth of cloth.

1869 - Khedive Ismail inaugurates the Suez Canal in a solemn ceremony in the city of Ismailia, in the presence of a large number of European kings and princes.

1907 - Oklahoma is annexed to the United States, becoming the 46th state.

1917 - The British take control of Jaffa in Palestine and expel the Ottomans from it.