Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.

Venezuelan general (1774–1817)

Manuel Carlos María Francisco Piar Gómez was General-in-Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan War of Independence.

Day of the year

October 16 is the 289th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 76 days remain until the end of the year.

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