Template:On this day/May 16

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 16:

• 1719 – The French fleet, under Jean Baptiste Le Moyne and his brother Sieur de Bienville, entered Pensacola Bay, fired on Fort San Carlos, and captured Pensacola.
• 1824 – Edmund Kirby Smith was born.
• 1856 – Construction began on the Alabama & Florida Railroad.
• 2006 – Escambia County Commissioners requested validation of funds for the Southwest Escambia Improvement District, which was approved but later halted by a complaint by Dr. Greg Strand.