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  • Rome
    Friday Jun 8, 68
    Roman Empire

    Servius Sulpicius Galba

    Rome
    Friday Jun 8, 68

    Servius Sulpicius Galba, born as Lucius Livius Ocella Sulpicius Galba, was a Roman emperor who ruled from AD 68 to 69. He was the first emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors and assumed the position following Emperor Nero's suicide. Galba's physical weakness and general apathy led to him being selected over by favorites. Unable to gain popularity with the people or maintain the support of the Praetorian Guard, Galba was murdered by Otho, who became emperor in his place.




  • Outside Rome
    Saturday Jun 9, 68
    Roman Empire

    Nero committed suicide

    Outside Rome
    Saturday Jun 9, 68

    A military coup drove Nero into hiding. Facing execution at the hands of the Roman Senate, he reportedly committed suicide in 68. According to Cassius Dio, Nero's last words were "Jupiter, what an artist perishes in me!".




  • Rome
    Saturday Jun 24, 79
    Roman Empire

    Titus Caesar Vespasianus

    Rome
    Saturday Jun 24, 79

    Titus, Vespasian's successor, quickly proved his merit, although his short reign was marked by disaster, including the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. He held the opening ceremonies in the still unfinished Colosseum but died in 81.




  • Region near the Altai Mountains, Mongolia
    Jun, 89
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Battle of the Altai Mountains

    Region near the Altai Mountains, Mongolia
    Jun, 89

    Han and allied forces defeated the army of the Northern Chanyu and accepted the surrender of two hundred thousand Xiongnu soldiers in the Altai Mountains.




  • Rome
    Sunday Jun 2, 193
    Roman Empire

    Julianus was sentenced to death

    Rome
    Sunday Jun 2, 193

    Julianus was sentenced to death.




  • Cappadocia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Monday Jun 8, 218
    Roman Empire

    Macrinus died

    Cappadocia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Monday Jun 8, 218

    However, his downfall was his refusal to award the pay and privileges promised to the eastern troops by Caracalla. He also kept those forces wintered in Syria, where they became attracted to the young Elagabalus. After months of mild rebellion by the bulk of the army in Syria, Macrinus took his loyal troops to meet the army of Elagabalus near Antioch. Despite a good fight by the Praetorian Guard, his soldiers were defeated. Macrinus managed to escape to Chalcedon but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just 14 months. After his father's defeat outside Antioch, Diadumenian tried to escape east to Parthia, but was captured and killed.




  • Emesa (Present-Day Homs, Syria)
    Jun, 218
    Roman Empire

    Elagabalus was proclaimed emperor

    Emesa (Present-Day Homs, Syria)
    Jun, 218

    Elagabalus was proclaimed emperor by the troops of Emesa, his hometown, who were instigated to do so by Elagabalus's grandmother, Julia Maesa. She spread a rumor that Elagabalus was the secret son of Caracalla.


  • Rome
    Jun, 251
    Roman Empire

    Trebonianus Gallus

    Rome
    Jun, 251

    In June 251, Decius and his co-emperor and son Herennius Etruscus died in the Battle of Abrittus at the hands of the Goths they were supposed to punish for raids into the empire. According to rumors supported by Dexippus (a contemporary Greek historian) and the thirteenth Sibylline Oracle, Decius' failure was largely owing to Gallus, who had conspired with the invaders. In any case, when the army heard the news, the soldiers proclaimed Gallus emperor, despite Hostilian, Decius' surviving son, ascending the imperial throne in Rome. This action of the army, and the fact that Gallus seems to have been on good terms with Decius' family, makes Dexippus' allegation improbable. Gallus did not back down from his intention to become emperor, but accepted Hostilian as co-emperor, perhaps to avoid the damage of another civil war.


  • Antoniana Colonia Tyana, Cappadocia (Pressent-Day in Turkey)
    Jun, 276
    Roman Empire

    Tacitus died

    Antoniana Colonia Tyana, Cappadocia (Pressent-Day in Turkey)
    Jun, 276

    On his way back to the west to deal with a Frankish and Alamannic invasion of Gaul, according to Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, and the Historia Augusta, Tacitus died of fever at Tyana in Cappadocia in June 276.


  • Guatemala
    Sunday Jun 25, 750
    Maya civilization

    Lachan Kʼawiil Ajaw Bot was a Maya king

    Guatemala
    Sunday Jun 25, 750

    Lachan Kʼawiil Ajaw Bot was a Maya king of La Amelia, an ancient city near Itzan in the Petén Department of modern Guatemala.


  • Ingelheim (Present Day in Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 20, 840
    Holy Roman Empire

    Louis the Pious death

    Ingelheim (Present Day in Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 20, 840

    Upon Louis (Louis the Pious)' death in 840, it passed to his son Lothair, who had been his co-ruler.


  • Iran
    Monday Jun 21, 990
    07:30:00 AM
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1990 Manjil–Rudbar Earthquake

    Iran
    Monday Jun 21, 990
    07:30:00 AM

    The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme). Widespread damage occurred to the northwest of the capital city of Tehran, including the cities of Rudbar and Manjil. The National Geophysical Data Center estimated that $8 billion in damage occurred in the affected area. Other earthquake catalogs presented estimates of the loss of life in the range of 35,000–50,000, with a further 60,000–105,000 that were injured.


  • Jerusalem
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1099
    Crusades

    Siege of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1099

    Bohemond remained in Antioch, retaining the city, despite his pledge to return it to Byzantine control, while "Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse" led the remaining Crusader army rapidly south along the coast to Jerusalem. An initial attack on the city failed, and the siege of Jerusalem of 1099 became a stalemate until they breached the walls on 15 July 1099. For two days the Crusaders massacred the inhabitants and pillaged the city.


  • France
    Jun, 1147
    Crusades

    The French contingent departed

    France
    Jun, 1147

    The French contingent departed in June 1147.


  • Saleph River, Cilician Armenia (Present Day Turkey)
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190
    Holy Roman Empire

    Frederick's Death

    Saleph River, Cilician Armenia (Present Day Turkey)
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190

    In 1190, Frederick participated in the Third Crusade and died in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.


  • Silifke Castle
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190
    Crusades

    Frederick drowned near Silifke Castle

    Silifke Castle
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190

    On 10 June 1190, Frederick drowned near Silifke Castle. His death caused several thousand German soldiers to leave the force and return home. The remaining German army moved under the command of the English and French forces that arrived shortly thereafter.


  • Kösedağ
    Friday Jun 26, 1243
    Byzantine Empire

    Battle of Köse Dağ

    Kösedağ
    Friday Jun 26, 1243

    The weakening of the Sultanate of Rûm following the Mongol invasion in 1242–43 allowed many beyliks and ghazis to set up their own principalities in Anatolia, weakening the Byzantine hold on Asia Minor.


  • Rome, Holy Roman Empire
    Wednesday Jun 29, 1312
    Holy Roman Empire

    Henry VII is Holy Roman Emperor

    Rome, Holy Roman Empire
    Wednesday Jun 29, 1312

    Instead, Henry VII, of the House of Luxembourg, was elected with six votes at Frankfurt on 27 November 1308. Given his background, although he was a vassal of king Philip (King Philip IV of France), Henry was bound by few national ties, an aspect of his suitability as a compromise candidate among the electors, the great territorial magnates who had lived without a crowned emperor for decades, and who were unhappy with both Charles and Rudolf. Henry of Cologne's brother, Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, won over a number of the electors, including Henry, in exchange for some substantial concessions. Henry VII was crowned king at Aachen on 6 January 1309, and emperor by Pope Clement V on 29 June 1312 in Rome, ending the interregnum.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1341
    Mamluks

    Al-Malik al-Mansur was the Bahri Mamluk sultan in 1341

    Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1341

    Al-Malik al-Mansur Sayf ad-Din Abu Bakr, better known as al-Mansur Abu Bakr was the Bahri Mamluk sultan in 1341. He became sultan, the first of several sons of an-Nasir Muhammad to accede to the throne. However, his reign was short-lived.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Jun, 1342
    Mamluks

    Al-Malik as-Salih was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt in June 1342

    Cairo, Egypt
    Jun, 1342

    As-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il, better known as as-Salih Isma'il, was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt between June 1342 and August 1345. He was the fourth son of an-Nasir Muhammad to succeed the latter as sultan.


  • Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389
    Ottoman Empire

    Battle of Kosovo

    Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389

    The Ottoman victory in Kosovo in 1389 effectively marked the end of Serbian power in the region, paving the way for Ottoman expansion into Europe.


  • Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389
    Byzantine Empire

    Battle of Kosovo

    Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389

    By the time the Byzantine civil wars had ended, the Ottomans had defeated the Serbians and subjugated them as vassals. Following the Battle of Kosovo, much of the Balkans became dominated by the Ottomans.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Thursday Jun 7, 1438
    Mamluks

    Al-Aziz Jamal ad-Din Yusuf was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt in 1438

    Cairo, Egypt
    Thursday Jun 7, 1438

    Al-Aziz Jamal ad-Din Yusuf was the son of Barsbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Friday Jun 28, 1461
    Mamluks

    Sayf ad-Din Khushqadam was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria

    Cairo, Egypt
    Friday Jun 28, 1461

    Al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Sayf al-Dīn Abū Saʿīd Khushqadam ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Nāṣirī l-Muʾayyadī was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 28 June 1461 to 9 October 1467. He was born in Cairo, Egypt.


  • Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 25, 1483
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Execution in Pontefract Castle

    Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 25, 1483

    On 25 June 1483, Gloucester had Elizabeth Woodville's son Richard Grey and brother Anthony, Earl Rivers, executed in Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire. By an act of Parliament, the Titulus Regius (1 Ric. III), it was declared that Edward IV's children with Elizabeth were illegitimate on the grounds that Edward IV had a precontract with the widow Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid. One source, the Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines, says that Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, carried out an engagement ceremony between Edward IV and Lady Eleanor.


  • Westminster Palace, London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1491
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Elizabeth was present at the birth of her granddaughter Margaret

    Westminster Palace, London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1491

    At Bermondsey Abbey, Elizabeth was treated with the respect due to a dowager queen. She lived a regal life on a pension of £400 and received small gifts from Henry VII. Elizabeth was present at the birth of her granddaughter Margaret at Westminster Palace in November 1489 and at the birth of her grandson, the future Henry VIII, at Greenwich Palace in June 1491.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Death

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 8, 1492

    Elizabeth Woodville died at Bermondsey Abbey, on 8 June 1492.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Jun 30, 1500
    Mamluks

    Al-Ashraf Janbalat was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt in 1500

    Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Jun 30, 1500

    Al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasir Janbalat was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 30 June 1500 to 25 January 1501.


  • Frankfurt, Germany, Holy Roman Empire
    Tuesday Jun 26, 1612
    Holy Roman Empire

    Matthias became Holy Roman Emperor

    Frankfurt, Germany, Holy Roman Empire
    Tuesday Jun 26, 1612

    Matthias of Austria, a member of the House of Habsburg (February 24, 1557 - March 20, 1619) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria (1612 – 1619), king of Hungary (as Mátyás II) and Croatia (as Matija II) since 1608 and king of Bohemia (also as Matyáš II) since 1611. His personal motto was Concordia lumine maior ("Unity is stronger than light").


  • Italy
    Wednesday Jun 22, 1633
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was found guilty

    Italy
    Wednesday Jun 22, 1633

    Galileo was found guilty, and the sentence of the Inquisition, issued on 22 June 1633, was in three essential parts: Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the center of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse, and detest" those opinions. He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition. On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life. His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.


  • Qing Empire (now China)
    Sunday Jun 19, 1718
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1718 Gansu Earthquake

    Qing Empire (now China)
    Sunday Jun 19, 1718

    1718 Gansu earthquake occurred on June 19, 1718 in Qing Empire (now China), there were an estimated 73,000 deaths.


  • Leipzig, Germany
    Friday Jun 5, 1722
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Kuhnau death

    Leipzig, Germany
    Friday Jun 5, 1722

    Johann Kuhnau had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1701 until his death on 5 June 1722. Bach had visited Leipzig during Kuhnau's tenure: in 1714 he attended the service at the St. Thomas Church on the first Sunday of Advent, and in 1717 he had tested the organ of the Paulinerkirche. In 1716 Bach and Kuhnau had met on the occasion of the testing and inauguration of an organ in Halle.


  • Oran (Present-Day in Algeria)
    Jun, 1732
    Ottoman Empire

    Spain conquered Oran

    Oran (Present-Day in Algeria)
    Jun, 1732

    In Ottoman North Africa, Spain conquered Oran from the Ottoman Empire (1732). The bey received an Ottoman army from Algiers, but it failed to recapture Oran; the siege caused the deaths of 1,500 Spaniards and even more Algerians.


  • Leipzig, Germany
    Monday Jun 2, 1749
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the Thomaskantor and Director musics posts

    Leipzig, Germany
    Monday Jun 2, 1749

    On 2 June, Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the Thomaskantor and Director musics posts "upon the eventual ... decease of Mr. Bach".


  • Iran
    Saturday Jun 7, 1755
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1755 Tabriz Earthquake

    Iran
    Saturday Jun 7, 1755

    1755 Tabriz earthquake occurred on June 7, 1755, in Iran, there were an estimated 40,000 deaths.


  • Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea, London SW3 4SR, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 29, 1764
    Mozart

    Mozart in Ranelagh Gardens

    Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea, London SW3 4SR, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 29, 1764

    In aid of a newly established maternity hospital, Mozart performed his compositions on the harpsichord and organ at a benefit concert. The entry fee was 5 shillings.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 15, 1775
    George Washington

    Congress created the Continental Army

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 15, 1775

    Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and Samuel and John Adams nominated Washington to become its commander in chief. Washington was chosen over John Hancock because of his military experience and the belief that a Virginian would better unite the colonies. He was considered an incisive leader who kept his "ambition in check". He was unanimously elected commander in chief by Congress the next day.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 17, 1775
    George Washington

    Washington appeared before Congress in uniform

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 17, 1775

    Washington appeared before Congress in uniform and gave an acceptance speech on June 16, declining a salary—though he was later reimbursed expenses.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 20, 1775
    George Washington

    He was commissioned on June 19 and was roundly praised by Congressional delegates

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 20, 1775

    He was commissioned on June 19 and was roundly praised by Congressional delegates, including John Adams, who proclaimed that he was the man best suited to lead and unite the colonies.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1775
    George Washington

    Congress ordered an invasion of Canada

    U.S.
    Jun, 1775

    In June 1775, Congress ordered an invasion of Canada. It was led by Benedict Arnold, who, despite Washington's strong objection, drew volunteers from the latter's force during the Siege of Boston. The move on Quebec failed, with the American forces being reduced to less than half and forced to retreat.


  • U.S.
    Saturday Jun 14, 1777
    Flag of the United States

    Flag Resolution

    U.S.
    Saturday Jun 14, 1777

    On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jun 8, 1778
    Mozart

    Mozart resigns

    Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jun 8, 1778

    The composer was called to Vienna the following March, where his employer, Archbishop Colloredo, participated in the festivities for Joseph II 's accession to the Austrian throne. Mozart, fresh from his adulation in Munich, was offended when Colloredo regarded him as a mere servant, and particularly when the archbishop forbade him to perform at Countess Thun's before the Emperor for a fee equal to half of his annual Salzburg salary. In May, the ensuing quarrel reached a head, Mozart attempted to withdraw and was rejected. Permission was granted the following month but the composer was dismissed in a grossly insulting manner, administered by the steward of the archbishop, Count Arco. Mozart decided to settle in Vienna as a freelance performer and a composer.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Tuesday Jun 17, 1783
    02 PM
    Mozart

    His first son and the tragedy

    Vienna, Austria
    Tuesday Jun 17, 1783
    02 PM

    Constanze gave birth to a baby boy named Raimund Leopold, but the Mozarts took a trip to Salzburg to see Leopold, leaving Raimund Leopold in Vienna as a young infant. Their son died when they were away, so the Mozarts left for Vienna.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1783
    George Washington

    Washington called for a strong union

    U.S.
    Jun, 1783

    Before returning to private life in June 1783, Washington called for a strong union. Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters, he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states. He believed the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion", was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government.


  • France
    Jun, 1793
    Napoleon

    Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland

    France
    Jun, 1793

    Napoleon came into conflict with Paoli, who had decided to split with France and sabotage the Corsican contribution to the Expédition de Sardaigne, by preventing a French assault on the Sardinian island of La Maddalena. Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland in June 1793 because of the split with Paoli.


  • Malta
    Saturday Jun 9, 1798
    Napoleon

    Bonaparte reached Malta

    Malta
    Saturday Jun 9, 1798

    Bonaparte reached Malta on 9 June 1798, then controlled by the Knights Hospitaller. Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim surrendered after token resistance, and Bonaparte captured an important naval base with the loss of only three men.


  • Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Saturday Jun 14, 1800
    Napoleon

    Battle of Marengo

    Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Saturday Jun 14, 1800

    After spending several days looking for each other, the two armies collided at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June. General Melas had a numerical advantage, fielding about 30,000 Austrian soldiers while Napoleon commanded 24,000 French troops. The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Late in the afternoon, a full division under Louis Desaix arrived on the field and reversed the tide of the battle. A series of artillery barrages and cavalry charges decimated the Austrian army, which fled over the Bormida River back to Alessandria, leaving behind 14,000 casualties.


  • Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Sunday Jun 15, 1800
    Napoleon

    Convention of Alessandria

    Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Sunday Jun 15, 1800

    The Austrian army agreed to abandon Northern Italy once more with the Convention of Alessandria, which granted them safe passage to friendly soil in exchange for their fortresses throughout the region.


  • Heilsberg, East Prussia (Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland)
    Wednesday Jun 10, 1807
    Napoleon

    Battle of Heilsberg

    Heilsberg, East Prussia (Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland)
    Wednesday Jun 10, 1807

    After a period of rest and consolidation on both sides (French forces and Russian forces), the war restarted in June with an initial struggle at Heilsberg that proved indecisive.


  • Friedland, Prussia (Present Day Pravdinsk, Russia)
    Sunday Jun 14, 1807
    Napoleon

    Battle of Friedland

    Friedland, Prussia (Present Day Pravdinsk, Russia)
    Sunday Jun 14, 1807

    On 14 June Napoleon obtained an overwhelming victory over the Russians at the Battle of Friedland, wiping out the majority of the Russian army in a very bloody struggle. The scale of their defeat convinced the Russians to make peace with the French.


  • Tilsit (Present Day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
    Friday Jun 19, 1807
    Napoleon

    Tsar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon

    Tilsit (Present Day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
    Friday Jun 19, 1807

    On 19 June, Tsar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon. The latter assured the envoy that the Vistula River represented the natural borders between French and Russian influence in Europe. On that basis, the two emperors began peace negotiations at the town of Tilsit after meeting on an iconic raft on the River Niemen. The very first thing Alexander said to Napoleon was probably well-calibrated: "I hate the English as much as you do".


  • Spain
    Monday Jun 6, 1808
    Napoleon

    Napoleon appointed his brother as the new King of Spain

    Spain
    Monday Jun 6, 1808

    Napoleon appointed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, as the new King of Spain in the summer of 1808.


  • Austria
    Friday Jun 30, 1809
    Napoleon

    French recrossed the Danube

    Austria
    Friday Jun 30, 1809

    From 30 June to the early days of July, the French recrossed the Danube in strength, with more than 180,000 troops marching across the Marchfeld towards the Austrians. Charles received the French with 150,000 of his own men.


  • France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812
    Napoleon

    Napoleon prepared for an offensive campaign against Russia

    France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812

    Napoleon ignored repeated advice against an invasion of the Russian heartland and prepared for an offensive campaign; on 24 June 1812 the invasion commenced.


  • San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores

    San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812

    As Royalist Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde was advancing into republican territory from the west, Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores on 30 June 1812. Bolívar then retreated to his estate in San Mateo.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1813
    Beethoven

    Back to Work

    Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1813

    Beethoven was finally motivated to begin significant composition again in June 1813, when news arrived of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Vitoria by a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington. The inventor Mälzel persuaded him to write a work commemorating the event for his mechanical instrument the Panharmonicon.


  • Venezuela
    Tuesday Jun 15, 1813
    Simón Bolívar

    Decree of War to the Death

    Venezuela
    Tuesday Jun 15, 1813

    This was followed by the occupation of Trujillo on 9 June. Six days later, and as a result of Spanish massacres on independence supporters, Bolívar dictated his famous "Decree of War to the Death", allowing the killing of any Spaniard not actively supporting independence.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1815
    Unification of Italy

    The Congress of Vienna restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments

    Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1815

    After Napoleon fell, the Congress of Vienna restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments. Italy was again controlled largely by the Austrian Empire and the Habsburgs, as they directly controlled the predominantly Italian-speaking northeastern part of Italy and were, together, the most powerful force against unification.


  • Waterloo (Present Day Waterloo, Belgium)
    Sunday Jun 18, 1815
    Napoleon

    Battle of Waterloo

    Waterloo (Present Day Waterloo, Belgium)
    Sunday Jun 18, 1815

    Napoleon's forces fought two Coalition armies, commanded by the British Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Prince Blücher, at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Wellington's army withstood repeated attacks by the French and drove them from the field while the Prussians arrived in force and broke through Napoleon's right flank.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 22, 1815
    Napoleon

    Napoleon abdicated on 22 June in favor of his son

    Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 22, 1815

    Napoleon returned to Paris and found that both the legislature and the people had turned against him. Realizing his position was untenable, he abdicated on 22 June in favor of his son.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 29, 1815
    Napoleon

    Coalition forces swept through Paris

    Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 29, 1815

    Napoleon left Paris three days later and settled at Josephine's former palace in Malmaison (on the western bank of the Seine about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris). Even as Napoleon traveled to Paris, the Coalition forces swept through France (arriving in the vicinity of Paris on 29 June), with the stated intent of restoring Louis XVIII to the French throne.


  • Venezuela
    Sunday Jun 2, 1816
    Simón Bolívar

    Fulfilled his promise to Pétion to free Spanish America's slaves

    Venezuela
    Sunday Jun 2, 1816

    In 1816, with Haitian soldiers and vital material support, Bolívar landed in Venezuela and fulfilled his promise to Pétion to free Spanish America's slaves on 2 June 1816.


  • Caracas, Venezuela
    Friday Jun 29, 1821
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar triumphantly entered Caracas

    Caracas, Venezuela
    Friday Jun 29, 1821

    From his newly consolidated base of power, Bolívar launched outright independence campaigns in Venezuela and Ecuador. These campaigns concluded with the victory at the Battle of Carabobo, after which Bolívar triumphantly entered Caracas on 29 June 1821.


  • Quito, Equador
    Sunday Jun 16, 1822
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar entered Quito, Equador

    Quito, Equador
    Sunday Jun 16, 1822

    Bolívar followed with the Battle of Bombona and the Battle of Pichincha, after which he entered Quito on 16 June 1822.


  • Mani, Greece
    Wednesday Jun 21, 1826
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani

    Mani, Greece
    Wednesday Jun 21, 1826

    The Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani was a campaign during the Greek War of Independence that consisted of three battles. The Maniots fought against a combined Egyptian and Ottoman army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt.


  • Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830
    Buckingham Palace

    Death of George IV

    Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830

    On the death of George IV in 1830, his younger brother King William IV hired Edward Blore to finish the work.


  • Nezib, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Ibrahim won his last victory for his father at Nezib

    Nezib, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    The Porte felt strong enough to renew the struggle, and war broke out once more. Ibrahim won his last victory for his father at Nezib on June 24, 1839.


  • Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Second Egyptian–Ottoman War

    Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    The Battle of Nezib was fought on 24 June 1839 between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire. The Egyptians were led by Ibrahim Pasha, while the Ottomans were led by Hafiz Osman Pasha.


  • Nezip, Ottoman Empire
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Battle of Nezib

    Nezip, Ottoman Empire
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    When Mahmud II ordered his forces to advance on the Syrian frontier, Ibrahim attacked and destroyed them at the Battle of Nezib (24 June 1839) near Urfa. In an echo of the Battle of Konya, Constantinople was again left vulnerable to Ali's forces. A further blow to the Ottomans was the defection of their fleet to Muhammad Ali. Mahmud II died almost immediately after the battle took place and was succeeded by sixteen-year-old Abdülmecid. At this point, Ali and Ibrahim began to argue about which course to follow; Ibrahim favored conquering the Ottoman capital and demanding the imperial seat while Muhammad Ali was inclined simply to demand numerous concessions of territory and political autonomy for himself and his family.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 1, 1843
    Sojourner Truth

    Changed her name

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 1, 1843

    The year 1843 was a turning point for Baumfree. She became a Methodist, and on June 1, Pentecost Sunday, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She chose the name because she heard the Spirit of God calling on her to preach the truth. She told her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go," and left to make her way traveling and preaching about the abolition of slavery.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Berlin, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 14, 1848
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Hermann von Natzmer refused to shoot the insurgent forces

    Central Europe (Present-Day Berlin, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 14, 1848

    Hermann von Natzmer was the former Prussian officer who had been in charge of the arsenal of Berlin. Refusing to shoot insurgent forces who stormed the arsenal on June 14, 1848, Natzmer became a hero to insurgents across Germany.


  • Romania
    Jun, 1848
    Revolutions of 1848

    Wallachian Revolution of 1848

    Romania
    Jun, 1848

    The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sought to overturn the administration imposed by Imperial Russian authorities under the Regulamentul Organic regime, and, through many of its leaders, demanded the abolition of boyar privilege.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly

    Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1849

    Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly, which was little more than a debating club. The radical members were forced to go to Stuttgart, where they sat from June 6–18 as a rump parliament until it too was dispersed by Württemberg troops.


  • France
    Jun, 1849
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Blackwell enrolled at La Maternité

    France
    Jun, 1849

    In June, Blackwell enrolled at La Maternité; a "lying-in" hospital, under the condition that she would be treated as a student midwife, not a physician. She made the acquaintance of Hippolyte Blot, a young resident physician at La Maternité. She gained much medical experience through his mentoring and training.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 13, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Engels joined an 800-member group of workers being formed as a military corps

    Central Europe (Present-Day Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 13, 1849

    On June 13, 1849, Engels joined an 800-member group of workers being formed as a military corps by August Willich, a former Prussian military officer. He was also a member of the Communist League and supported a revolutionary change in Germany.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Jun, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Palatine uprising

    Central Europe (Present-Day Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Jun, 1849

    The Palatine uprising was a rebellion that took place in May and June 1849 in the Rhenish Palatinate, then an exclave territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Related to uprisings across the Rhine River in Baden, it was part of the widespread Imperial Constitution Campaign. Revolutionaries worked to defend the Constitution as well as to secede from the Kingdom of Bavaria.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
    Jun, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Joseph Martin Reichard appointed deputy in the Frankfurt Assembly

    Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
    Jun, 1849

    The provisional government first appointed Joseph Martin Reichard, a lawyer, democrat, and deputy in the Frankfurt Assembly, as the head of the military department in the Palatinate.


  • Rome, Italy
    Friday Jun 29, 1849
    Unification of Italy

    Rome capitulated on 29 June 1849

    Rome, Italy
    Friday Jun 29, 1849

    After a two-month siege, Rome capitulated on 29 June 1849 and the Pope was restored. Garibaldi and Mazzini once again fled into exile—in 1850 Garibaldi went to New York City.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    June 1856 Republican National Convention

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856

    At the June 1856 Republican National Convention, though Lincoln received support to run as vice president, John C. Frémont and William Dayton comprised the ticket, which Lincoln supported throughout Illinois. The Democrats nominated former Secretary of State James Buchanan and the Know-Nothings nominated former Whig President Millard Fillmore.


  • Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 17, 1858
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln's House Divided Speech

    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 17, 1858

    Accepting the nomination, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other". The speech created a stark image of the danger of disunion. The stage was then set for the election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas. When informed of Lincoln's nomination, Douglas stated, "[Lincoln] is the strong man of the party ... and if I beat him, my victory will be hardly won."


  • Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1859
    Unification of Italy

    Napoleon III's plans was succeed

    Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1859

    Napoleon III's plans worked and at the Battle of Solferino, France and Sardinia defeated Austria and forced negotiations; at the same time, in the northern part of Lombardy, the Italian volunteers known as the Hunters of the Alps, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, defeated the Austrians at Varese and Como.


  • Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Third Italian War of Independence

    Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860

    The Third Italian War of Independence was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire fought between June and August 1866. The conflict paralleled the Austro-Prussian War and resulted in Austria conceding the region of Venetia to France, which were later annexed by Italy after a plebiscite. Italy's acquisition of this wealthy and populous territory represented a major step in the process of Italian unification.


  • Italy
    Jun, 1861
    Unification of Italy

    Cavour died unexpectedly

    Italy
    Jun, 1861

    Cavour died unexpectedly in June 1861, at 50, and most of the many promises that he made to regional authorities to induce them to join the newly unified Italian kingdom were ignored. The new Kingdom of Italy was structured by renaming the old Kingdom of Sardinia and annexing all the new provinces into its structures. The first king was Victor Emmanuel II, who kept his old title.


  • Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
    Monday Jun 3, 1861
    Memorial day

    First civil war grave decorated

    Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
    Monday Jun 3, 1861

    On June 3, 1861, Warrenton, Virginia, was the location of the first Civil War soldier's grave ever to be decorated, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper article in 1906. This decoration was for the funeral of the first soldier killed in action during the Civil War, John Quincy Marr, who died on June 1, 1861, during a skirmish at Battle of Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia.


  • U.S
    Jun, 1861
    USA civil war

    Lincoln announced the Union blockade of all Southern ports

    U.S
    Jun, 1861

    In April 1861, Lincoln announced the Union blockade of all Southern ports; commercial ships could not get insurance and regular traffic ended. The South blundered in embargoing cotton exports in 1861 before the blockade was effective; by the time they realized the mistake, it was too late.


  • Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo

    Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, he sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo, where he gathered volunteers for the campaign, under the slogan o Roma o Morte. The garrison of Messina, loyal to the king's instructions, barred their passage to the mainland. Garibaldi's force, now numbering two thousand, turned south and set sail from Catania.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    1862 midterm elections

    U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    McClellan then resisted the president's demand that he pursue Lee's withdrawing army, while General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee. Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans; and after the 1862 midterm elections he replaced McClellan with Ambrose Burnside. The appointments were both politically neutral and adroit on Lincoln's part.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory, which Lincoln signed.


  • West Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln

    West Virginia was admitted to the Union

    West Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863

    West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.


  • West Virginia, United States
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863
    USA civil war

    West Virginia separated from Virginia

    West Virginia, United States
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863

    West Virginia separated from Virginia and was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.


  • Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 19, 1866
    Juneteenth

    Freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration

    Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 19, 1866

    Formerly enslaved people in Galveston celebrated after the announcement. Freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on June 19. Early celebrations were used as political rallies to give voting instructions to newly freed slaves. Early independence celebrations often occurred on January 1 or 4.


  • New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1871
    Statue of Liberty

    Bartholdi went to the U.S.

    New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1871

    Due to the Franco-Prussian War, Bartholdi's home province of Alsace was lost to the Prussians, and a more liberal republic was installed in France. As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans. In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Jun 2, 1872
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day (United States)

    U.S.
    Sunday Jun 2, 1872

    In 1872 Julia Ward Howe called for women to join in support of disarmament and asked for 2 June 1872, to be established as a "Mother's Day for Peace".


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 6, 1872
    Frederick Douglass

    First African American nominated for Vice President of the United States

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 6, 1872

    In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He was nominated without his knowledge. Douglass neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated.


  • U.S.
    Monday Jun 29, 1874
    Frederick Douglass

    Freedman's Savings Bank went bankrupt

    U.S.
    Monday Jun 29, 1874

    The Freedman's Savings Bank went bankrupt on June 29, 1874, just a few months after Douglass became its president in late March.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882
    Incandescent light bulb

    Swan sold his US Patent rights to the Brush Electric Company

    England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882

    In Britain, the Edison and Swan companies merged into the Edison and Swan United Electric Company (later known as Ediswan, and ultimately incorporated into Thorn Lighting Ltd). Edison was initially against this combination, but after Swan sued him and won, Edison was eventually forced to cooperate, and the merger was made. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company. Swan sold his US patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June 1882.


  • Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882
    Igor Stravinsky

    Born

    Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882

    Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in Oranienbaum, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, the Russian imperial capital, and was brought up in Saint Petersburg.


  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1883
    John Maynard Keynes

    Birth

    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1883

    John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family.


  • Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1883
    Marie Curie

    Graduating From a Gymnasium For Girls

    Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1883

    When she was ten years old, Maria began attending the boarding school of J. Sikorska; next she attended a gymnasium for girls, from which she graduated on 12 June 1883 with a gold medal.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1884
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla emigrated to the United States

    U.S.
    Jun, 1884

    In June 1884, Tesla emigrated to the United States.


  • Rome
    Friday Jun 8, 68
    Roman Empire

    Servius Sulpicius Galba

    Rome
    Friday Jun 8, 68

    Servius Sulpicius Galba, born as Lucius Livius Ocella Sulpicius Galba, was a Roman emperor who ruled from AD 68 to 69. He was the first emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors and assumed the position following Emperor Nero's suicide. Galba's physical weakness and general apathy led to him being selected over by favorites. Unable to gain popularity with the people or maintain the support of the Praetorian Guard, Galba was murdered by Otho, who became emperor in his place.


  • Outside Rome
    Saturday Jun 9, 68
    Roman Empire

    Nero committed suicide

    Outside Rome
    Saturday Jun 9, 68

    A military coup drove Nero into hiding. Facing execution at the hands of the Roman Senate, he reportedly committed suicide in 68. According to Cassius Dio, Nero's last words were "Jupiter, what an artist perishes in me!".


  • Rome
    Saturday Jun 24, 79
    Roman Empire

    Titus Caesar Vespasianus

    Rome
    Saturday Jun 24, 79

    Titus, Vespasian's successor, quickly proved his merit, although his short reign was marked by disaster, including the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. He held the opening ceremonies in the still unfinished Colosseum but died in 81.


  • Region near the Altai Mountains, Mongolia
    Jun, 89
    Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)

    Battle of the Altai Mountains

    Region near the Altai Mountains, Mongolia
    Jun, 89

    Han and allied forces defeated the army of the Northern Chanyu and accepted the surrender of two hundred thousand Xiongnu soldiers in the Altai Mountains.


  • Rome
    Sunday Jun 2, 193
    Roman Empire

    Julianus was sentenced to death

    Rome
    Sunday Jun 2, 193

    Julianus was sentenced to death.


  • Cappadocia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Monday Jun 8, 218
    Roman Empire

    Macrinus died

    Cappadocia (Present-Day in Turkey)
    Monday Jun 8, 218

    However, his downfall was his refusal to award the pay and privileges promised to the eastern troops by Caracalla. He also kept those forces wintered in Syria, where they became attracted to the young Elagabalus. After months of mild rebellion by the bulk of the army in Syria, Macrinus took his loyal troops to meet the army of Elagabalus near Antioch. Despite a good fight by the Praetorian Guard, his soldiers were defeated. Macrinus managed to escape to Chalcedon but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just 14 months. After his father's defeat outside Antioch, Diadumenian tried to escape east to Parthia, but was captured and killed.


  • Emesa (Present-Day Homs, Syria)
    Jun, 218
    Roman Empire

    Elagabalus was proclaimed emperor

    Emesa (Present-Day Homs, Syria)
    Jun, 218

    Elagabalus was proclaimed emperor by the troops of Emesa, his hometown, who were instigated to do so by Elagabalus's grandmother, Julia Maesa. She spread a rumor that Elagabalus was the secret son of Caracalla.


  • Rome
    Jun, 251
    Roman Empire

    Trebonianus Gallus

    Rome
    Jun, 251

    In June 251, Decius and his co-emperor and son Herennius Etruscus died in the Battle of Abrittus at the hands of the Goths they were supposed to punish for raids into the empire. According to rumors supported by Dexippus (a contemporary Greek historian) and the thirteenth Sibylline Oracle, Decius' failure was largely owing to Gallus, who had conspired with the invaders. In any case, when the army heard the news, the soldiers proclaimed Gallus emperor, despite Hostilian, Decius' surviving son, ascending the imperial throne in Rome. This action of the army, and the fact that Gallus seems to have been on good terms with Decius' family, makes Dexippus' allegation improbable. Gallus did not back down from his intention to become emperor, but accepted Hostilian as co-emperor, perhaps to avoid the damage of another civil war.


  • Antoniana Colonia Tyana, Cappadocia (Pressent-Day in Turkey)
    Jun, 276
    Roman Empire

    Tacitus died

    Antoniana Colonia Tyana, Cappadocia (Pressent-Day in Turkey)
    Jun, 276

    On his way back to the west to deal with a Frankish and Alamannic invasion of Gaul, according to Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, and the Historia Augusta, Tacitus died of fever at Tyana in Cappadocia in June 276.


  • Guatemala
    Sunday Jun 25, 750
    Maya civilization

    Lachan Kʼawiil Ajaw Bot was a Maya king

    Guatemala
    Sunday Jun 25, 750

    Lachan Kʼawiil Ajaw Bot was a Maya king of La Amelia, an ancient city near Itzan in the Petén Department of modern Guatemala.


  • Ingelheim (Present Day in Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 20, 840
    Holy Roman Empire

    Louis the Pious death

    Ingelheim (Present Day in Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 20, 840

    Upon Louis (Louis the Pious)' death in 840, it passed to his son Lothair, who had been his co-ruler.


  • Iran
    Monday Jun 21, 990
    07:30:00 AM
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1990 Manjil–Rudbar Earthquake

    Iran
    Monday Jun 21, 990
    07:30:00 AM

    The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme). Widespread damage occurred to the northwest of the capital city of Tehran, including the cities of Rudbar and Manjil. The National Geophysical Data Center estimated that $8 billion in damage occurred in the affected area. Other earthquake catalogs presented estimates of the loss of life in the range of 35,000–50,000, with a further 60,000–105,000 that were injured.


  • Jerusalem
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1099
    Crusades

    Siege of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1099

    Bohemond remained in Antioch, retaining the city, despite his pledge to return it to Byzantine control, while "Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse" led the remaining Crusader army rapidly south along the coast to Jerusalem. An initial attack on the city failed, and the siege of Jerusalem of 1099 became a stalemate until they breached the walls on 15 July 1099. For two days the Crusaders massacred the inhabitants and pillaged the city.


  • France
    Jun, 1147
    Crusades

    The French contingent departed

    France
    Jun, 1147

    The French contingent departed in June 1147.


  • Saleph River, Cilician Armenia (Present Day Turkey)
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190
    Holy Roman Empire

    Frederick's Death

    Saleph River, Cilician Armenia (Present Day Turkey)
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190

    In 1190, Frederick participated in the Third Crusade and died in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.


  • Silifke Castle
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190
    Crusades

    Frederick drowned near Silifke Castle

    Silifke Castle
    Sunday Jun 10, 1190

    On 10 June 1190, Frederick drowned near Silifke Castle. His death caused several thousand German soldiers to leave the force and return home. The remaining German army moved under the command of the English and French forces that arrived shortly thereafter.


  • Kösedağ
    Friday Jun 26, 1243
    Byzantine Empire

    Battle of Köse Dağ

    Kösedağ
    Friday Jun 26, 1243

    The weakening of the Sultanate of Rûm following the Mongol invasion in 1242–43 allowed many beyliks and ghazis to set up their own principalities in Anatolia, weakening the Byzantine hold on Asia Minor.


  • Rome, Holy Roman Empire
    Wednesday Jun 29, 1312
    Holy Roman Empire

    Henry VII is Holy Roman Emperor

    Rome, Holy Roman Empire
    Wednesday Jun 29, 1312

    Instead, Henry VII, of the House of Luxembourg, was elected with six votes at Frankfurt on 27 November 1308. Given his background, although he was a vassal of king Philip (King Philip IV of France), Henry was bound by few national ties, an aspect of his suitability as a compromise candidate among the electors, the great territorial magnates who had lived without a crowned emperor for decades, and who were unhappy with both Charles and Rudolf. Henry of Cologne's brother, Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, won over a number of the electors, including Henry, in exchange for some substantial concessions. Henry VII was crowned king at Aachen on 6 January 1309, and emperor by Pope Clement V on 29 June 1312 in Rome, ending the interregnum.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1341
    Mamluks

    Al-Malik al-Mansur was the Bahri Mamluk sultan in 1341

    Cairo, Egypt
    Wednesday Jun 7, 1341

    Al-Malik al-Mansur Sayf ad-Din Abu Bakr, better known as al-Mansur Abu Bakr was the Bahri Mamluk sultan in 1341. He became sultan, the first of several sons of an-Nasir Muhammad to accede to the throne. However, his reign was short-lived.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Jun, 1342
    Mamluks

    Al-Malik as-Salih was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt in June 1342

    Cairo, Egypt
    Jun, 1342

    As-Salih Imad ad-Din Abu'l Fida Isma'il, better known as as-Salih Isma'il, was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt between June 1342 and August 1345. He was the fourth son of an-Nasir Muhammad to succeed the latter as sultan.


  • Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389
    Ottoman Empire

    Battle of Kosovo

    Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389

    The Ottoman victory in Kosovo in 1389 effectively marked the end of Serbian power in the region, paving the way for Ottoman expansion into Europe.


  • Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389
    Byzantine Empire

    Battle of Kosovo

    Kosovo
    Monday Jun 15, 1389

    By the time the Byzantine civil wars had ended, the Ottomans had defeated the Serbians and subjugated them as vassals. Following the Battle of Kosovo, much of the Balkans became dominated by the Ottomans.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Thursday Jun 7, 1438
    Mamluks

    Al-Aziz Jamal ad-Din Yusuf was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt in 1438

    Cairo, Egypt
    Thursday Jun 7, 1438

    Al-Aziz Jamal ad-Din Yusuf was the son of Barsbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Friday Jun 28, 1461
    Mamluks

    Sayf ad-Din Khushqadam was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria

    Cairo, Egypt
    Friday Jun 28, 1461

    Al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Sayf al-Dīn Abū Saʿīd Khushqadam ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Nāṣirī l-Muʾayyadī was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 28 June 1461 to 9 October 1467. He was born in Cairo, Egypt.


  • Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 25, 1483
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Execution in Pontefract Castle

    Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jun 25, 1483

    On 25 June 1483, Gloucester had Elizabeth Woodville's son Richard Grey and brother Anthony, Earl Rivers, executed in Pontefract Castle, Yorkshire. By an act of Parliament, the Titulus Regius (1 Ric. III), it was declared that Edward IV's children with Elizabeth were illegitimate on the grounds that Edward IV had a precontract with the widow Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid. One source, the Burgundian chronicler Philippe de Commines, says that Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, carried out an engagement ceremony between Edward IV and Lady Eleanor.


  • Westminster Palace, London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1491
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Elizabeth was present at the birth of her granddaughter Margaret

    Westminster Palace, London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1491

    At Bermondsey Abbey, Elizabeth was treated with the respect due to a dowager queen. She lived a regal life on a pension of £400 and received small gifts from Henry VII. Elizabeth was present at the birth of her granddaughter Margaret at Westminster Palace in November 1489 and at the birth of her grandson, the future Henry VIII, at Greenwich Palace in June 1491.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
    Elizabeth Woodville

    Death

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 8, 1492

    Elizabeth Woodville died at Bermondsey Abbey, on 8 June 1492.


  • Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Jun 30, 1500
    Mamluks

    Al-Ashraf Janbalat was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt in 1500

    Cairo, Egypt
    Saturday Jun 30, 1500

    Al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasir Janbalat was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 30 June 1500 to 25 January 1501.


  • Frankfurt, Germany, Holy Roman Empire
    Tuesday Jun 26, 1612
    Holy Roman Empire

    Matthias became Holy Roman Emperor

    Frankfurt, Germany, Holy Roman Empire
    Tuesday Jun 26, 1612

    Matthias of Austria, a member of the House of Habsburg (February 24, 1557 - March 20, 1619) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria (1612 – 1619), king of Hungary (as Mátyás II) and Croatia (as Matija II) since 1608 and king of Bohemia (also as Matyáš II) since 1611. His personal motto was Concordia lumine maior ("Unity is stronger than light").


  • Italy
    Wednesday Jun 22, 1633
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was found guilty

    Italy
    Wednesday Jun 22, 1633

    Galileo was found guilty, and the sentence of the Inquisition, issued on 22 June 1633, was in three essential parts: Galileo was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the center of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to "abjure, curse, and detest" those opinions. He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition. On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life. His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.


  • Qing Empire (now China)
    Sunday Jun 19, 1718
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1718 Gansu Earthquake

    Qing Empire (now China)
    Sunday Jun 19, 1718

    1718 Gansu earthquake occurred on June 19, 1718 in Qing Empire (now China), there were an estimated 73,000 deaths.


  • Leipzig, Germany
    Friday Jun 5, 1722
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Kuhnau death

    Leipzig, Germany
    Friday Jun 5, 1722

    Johann Kuhnau had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1701 until his death on 5 June 1722. Bach had visited Leipzig during Kuhnau's tenure: in 1714 he attended the service at the St. Thomas Church on the first Sunday of Advent, and in 1717 he had tested the organ of the Paulinerkirche. In 1716 Bach and Kuhnau had met on the occasion of the testing and inauguration of an organ in Halle.


  • Oran (Present-Day in Algeria)
    Jun, 1732
    Ottoman Empire

    Spain conquered Oran

    Oran (Present-Day in Algeria)
    Jun, 1732

    In Ottoman North Africa, Spain conquered Oran from the Ottoman Empire (1732). The bey received an Ottoman army from Algiers, but it failed to recapture Oran; the siege caused the deaths of 1,500 Spaniards and even more Algerians.


  • Leipzig, Germany
    Monday Jun 2, 1749
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the Thomaskantor and Director musics posts

    Leipzig, Germany
    Monday Jun 2, 1749

    On 2 June, Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the Thomaskantor and Director musics posts "upon the eventual ... decease of Mr. Bach".


  • Iran
    Saturday Jun 7, 1755
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1755 Tabriz Earthquake

    Iran
    Saturday Jun 7, 1755

    1755 Tabriz earthquake occurred on June 7, 1755, in Iran, there were an estimated 40,000 deaths.


  • Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea, London SW3 4SR, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 29, 1764
    Mozart

    Mozart in Ranelagh Gardens

    Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea, London SW3 4SR, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 29, 1764

    In aid of a newly established maternity hospital, Mozart performed his compositions on the harpsichord and organ at a benefit concert. The entry fee was 5 shillings.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 15, 1775
    George Washington

    Congress created the Continental Army

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 15, 1775

    Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and Samuel and John Adams nominated Washington to become its commander in chief. Washington was chosen over John Hancock because of his military experience and the belief that a Virginian would better unite the colonies. He was considered an incisive leader who kept his "ambition in check". He was unanimously elected commander in chief by Congress the next day.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 17, 1775
    George Washington

    Washington appeared before Congress in uniform

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 17, 1775

    Washington appeared before Congress in uniform and gave an acceptance speech on June 16, declining a salary—though he was later reimbursed expenses.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 20, 1775
    George Washington

    He was commissioned on June 19 and was roundly praised by Congressional delegates

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 20, 1775

    He was commissioned on June 19 and was roundly praised by Congressional delegates, including John Adams, who proclaimed that he was the man best suited to lead and unite the colonies.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1775
    George Washington

    Congress ordered an invasion of Canada

    U.S.
    Jun, 1775

    In June 1775, Congress ordered an invasion of Canada. It was led by Benedict Arnold, who, despite Washington's strong objection, drew volunteers from the latter's force during the Siege of Boston. The move on Quebec failed, with the American forces being reduced to less than half and forced to retreat.


  • U.S.
    Saturday Jun 14, 1777
    Flag of the United States

    Flag Resolution

    U.S.
    Saturday Jun 14, 1777

    On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jun 8, 1778
    Mozart

    Mozart resigns

    Vienna, Austria
    Monday Jun 8, 1778

    The composer was called to Vienna the following March, where his employer, Archbishop Colloredo, participated in the festivities for Joseph II 's accession to the Austrian throne. Mozart, fresh from his adulation in Munich, was offended when Colloredo regarded him as a mere servant, and particularly when the archbishop forbade him to perform at Countess Thun's before the Emperor for a fee equal to half of his annual Salzburg salary. In May, the ensuing quarrel reached a head, Mozart attempted to withdraw and was rejected. Permission was granted the following month but the composer was dismissed in a grossly insulting manner, administered by the steward of the archbishop, Count Arco. Mozart decided to settle in Vienna as a freelance performer and a composer.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Tuesday Jun 17, 1783
    02 PM
    Mozart

    His first son and the tragedy

    Vienna, Austria
    Tuesday Jun 17, 1783
    02 PM

    Constanze gave birth to a baby boy named Raimund Leopold, but the Mozarts took a trip to Salzburg to see Leopold, leaving Raimund Leopold in Vienna as a young infant. Their son died when they were away, so the Mozarts left for Vienna.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1783
    George Washington

    Washington called for a strong union

    U.S.
    Jun, 1783

    Before returning to private life in June 1783, Washington called for a strong union. Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters, he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states. He believed the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion", was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government.


  • France
    Jun, 1793
    Napoleon

    Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland

    France
    Jun, 1793

    Napoleon came into conflict with Paoli, who had decided to split with France and sabotage the Corsican contribution to the Expédition de Sardaigne, by preventing a French assault on the Sardinian island of La Maddalena. Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland in June 1793 because of the split with Paoli.


  • Malta
    Saturday Jun 9, 1798
    Napoleon

    Bonaparte reached Malta

    Malta
    Saturday Jun 9, 1798

    Bonaparte reached Malta on 9 June 1798, then controlled by the Knights Hospitaller. Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim surrendered after token resistance, and Bonaparte captured an important naval base with the loss of only three men.


  • Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Saturday Jun 14, 1800
    Napoleon

    Battle of Marengo

    Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Saturday Jun 14, 1800

    After spending several days looking for each other, the two armies collided at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June. General Melas had a numerical advantage, fielding about 30,000 Austrian soldiers while Napoleon commanded 24,000 French troops. The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy. Late in the afternoon, a full division under Louis Desaix arrived on the field and reversed the tide of the battle. A series of artillery barrages and cavalry charges decimated the Austrian army, which fled over the Bormida River back to Alessandria, leaving behind 14,000 casualties.


  • Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Sunday Jun 15, 1800
    Napoleon

    Convention of Alessandria

    Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
    Sunday Jun 15, 1800

    The Austrian army agreed to abandon Northern Italy once more with the Convention of Alessandria, which granted them safe passage to friendly soil in exchange for their fortresses throughout the region.


  • Heilsberg, East Prussia (Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland)
    Wednesday Jun 10, 1807
    Napoleon

    Battle of Heilsberg

    Heilsberg, East Prussia (Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland)
    Wednesday Jun 10, 1807

    After a period of rest and consolidation on both sides (French forces and Russian forces), the war restarted in June with an initial struggle at Heilsberg that proved indecisive.


  • Friedland, Prussia (Present Day Pravdinsk, Russia)
    Sunday Jun 14, 1807
    Napoleon

    Battle of Friedland

    Friedland, Prussia (Present Day Pravdinsk, Russia)
    Sunday Jun 14, 1807

    On 14 June Napoleon obtained an overwhelming victory over the Russians at the Battle of Friedland, wiping out the majority of the Russian army in a very bloody struggle. The scale of their defeat convinced the Russians to make peace with the French.


  • Tilsit (Present Day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
    Friday Jun 19, 1807
    Napoleon

    Tsar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon

    Tilsit (Present Day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
    Friday Jun 19, 1807

    On 19 June, Tsar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon. The latter assured the envoy that the Vistula River represented the natural borders between French and Russian influence in Europe. On that basis, the two emperors began peace negotiations at the town of Tilsit after meeting on an iconic raft on the River Niemen. The very first thing Alexander said to Napoleon was probably well-calibrated: "I hate the English as much as you do".


  • Spain
    Monday Jun 6, 1808
    Napoleon

    Napoleon appointed his brother as the new King of Spain

    Spain
    Monday Jun 6, 1808

    Napoleon appointed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, as the new King of Spain in the summer of 1808.


  • Austria
    Friday Jun 30, 1809
    Napoleon

    French recrossed the Danube

    Austria
    Friday Jun 30, 1809

    From 30 June to the early days of July, the French recrossed the Danube in strength, with more than 180,000 troops marching across the Marchfeld towards the Austrians. Charles received the French with 150,000 of his own men.


  • France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812
    Napoleon

    Napoleon prepared for an offensive campaign against Russia

    France
    Wednesday Jun 24, 1812

    Napoleon ignored repeated advice against an invasion of the Russian heartland and prepared for an offensive campaign; on 24 June 1812 the invasion commenced.


  • San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores

    San Felipe Castle, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo
    Tuesday Jun 30, 1812

    As Royalist Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde was advancing into republican territory from the west, Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Castle along with its ammunition stores on 30 June 1812. Bolívar then retreated to his estate in San Mateo.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1813
    Beethoven

    Back to Work

    Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1813

    Beethoven was finally motivated to begin significant composition again in June 1813, when news arrived of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Vitoria by a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington. The inventor Mälzel persuaded him to write a work commemorating the event for his mechanical instrument the Panharmonicon.


  • Venezuela
    Tuesday Jun 15, 1813
    Simón Bolívar

    Decree of War to the Death

    Venezuela
    Tuesday Jun 15, 1813

    This was followed by the occupation of Trujillo on 9 June. Six days later, and as a result of Spanish massacres on independence supporters, Bolívar dictated his famous "Decree of War to the Death", allowing the killing of any Spaniard not actively supporting independence.


  • Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1815
    Unification of Italy

    The Congress of Vienna restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments

    Vienna, Austria
    Jun, 1815

    After Napoleon fell, the Congress of Vienna restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments. Italy was again controlled largely by the Austrian Empire and the Habsburgs, as they directly controlled the predominantly Italian-speaking northeastern part of Italy and were, together, the most powerful force against unification.


  • Waterloo (Present Day Waterloo, Belgium)
    Sunday Jun 18, 1815
    Napoleon

    Battle of Waterloo

    Waterloo (Present Day Waterloo, Belgium)
    Sunday Jun 18, 1815

    Napoleon's forces fought two Coalition armies, commanded by the British Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Prince Blücher, at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Wellington's army withstood repeated attacks by the French and drove them from the field while the Prussians arrived in force and broke through Napoleon's right flank.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 22, 1815
    Napoleon

    Napoleon abdicated on 22 June in favor of his son

    Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 22, 1815

    Napoleon returned to Paris and found that both the legislature and the people had turned against him. Realizing his position was untenable, he abdicated on 22 June in favor of his son.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 29, 1815
    Napoleon

    Coalition forces swept through Paris

    Paris, France
    Thursday Jun 29, 1815

    Napoleon left Paris three days later and settled at Josephine's former palace in Malmaison (on the western bank of the Seine about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris). Even as Napoleon traveled to Paris, the Coalition forces swept through France (arriving in the vicinity of Paris on 29 June), with the stated intent of restoring Louis XVIII to the French throne.


  • Venezuela
    Sunday Jun 2, 1816
    Simón Bolívar

    Fulfilled his promise to Pétion to free Spanish America's slaves

    Venezuela
    Sunday Jun 2, 1816

    In 1816, with Haitian soldiers and vital material support, Bolívar landed in Venezuela and fulfilled his promise to Pétion to free Spanish America's slaves on 2 June 1816.


  • Caracas, Venezuela
    Friday Jun 29, 1821
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar triumphantly entered Caracas

    Caracas, Venezuela
    Friday Jun 29, 1821

    From his newly consolidated base of power, Bolívar launched outright independence campaigns in Venezuela and Ecuador. These campaigns concluded with the victory at the Battle of Carabobo, after which Bolívar triumphantly entered Caracas on 29 June 1821.


  • Quito, Equador
    Sunday Jun 16, 1822
    Simón Bolívar

    Bolívar entered Quito, Equador

    Quito, Equador
    Sunday Jun 16, 1822

    Bolívar followed with the Battle of Bombona and the Battle of Pichincha, after which he entered Quito on 16 June 1822.


  • Mani, Greece
    Wednesday Jun 21, 1826
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani

    Mani, Greece
    Wednesday Jun 21, 1826

    The Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani was a campaign during the Greek War of Independence that consisted of three battles. The Maniots fought against a combined Egyptian and Ottoman army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt.


  • Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830
    Buckingham Palace

    Death of George IV

    Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 26, 1830

    On the death of George IV in 1830, his younger brother King William IV hired Edward Blore to finish the work.


  • Nezib, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Ibrahim won his last victory for his father at Nezib

    Nezib, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    The Porte felt strong enough to renew the struggle, and war broke out once more. Ibrahim won his last victory for his father at Nezib on June 24, 1839.


  • Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Second Egyptian–Ottoman War

    Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    The Battle of Nezib was fought on 24 June 1839 between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire. The Egyptians were led by Ibrahim Pasha, while the Ottomans were led by Hafiz Osman Pasha.


  • Nezip, Ottoman Empire
    Monday Jun 24, 1839
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Battle of Nezib

    Nezip, Ottoman Empire
    Monday Jun 24, 1839

    When Mahmud II ordered his forces to advance on the Syrian frontier, Ibrahim attacked and destroyed them at the Battle of Nezib (24 June 1839) near Urfa. In an echo of the Battle of Konya, Constantinople was again left vulnerable to Ali's forces. A further blow to the Ottomans was the defection of their fleet to Muhammad Ali. Mahmud II died almost immediately after the battle took place and was succeeded by sixteen-year-old Abdülmecid. At this point, Ali and Ibrahim began to argue about which course to follow; Ibrahim favored conquering the Ottoman capital and demanding the imperial seat while Muhammad Ali was inclined simply to demand numerous concessions of territory and political autonomy for himself and his family.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 1, 1843
    Sojourner Truth

    Changed her name

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 1, 1843

    The year 1843 was a turning point for Baumfree. She became a Methodist, and on June 1, Pentecost Sunday, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She chose the name because she heard the Spirit of God calling on her to preach the truth. She told her friends: "The Spirit calls me, and I must go," and left to make her way traveling and preaching about the abolition of slavery.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Berlin, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 14, 1848
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Hermann von Natzmer refused to shoot the insurgent forces

    Central Europe (Present-Day Berlin, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 14, 1848

    Hermann von Natzmer was the former Prussian officer who had been in charge of the arsenal of Berlin. Refusing to shoot insurgent forces who stormed the arsenal on June 14, 1848, Natzmer became a hero to insurgents across Germany.


  • Romania
    Jun, 1848
    Revolutions of 1848

    Wallachian Revolution of 1848

    Romania
    Jun, 1848

    The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sought to overturn the administration imposed by Imperial Russian authorities under the Regulamentul Organic regime, and, through many of its leaders, demanded the abolition of boyar privilege.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly

    Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1849

    Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly, which was little more than a debating club. The radical members were forced to go to Stuttgart, where they sat from June 6–18 as a rump parliament until it too was dispersed by Württemberg troops.


  • France
    Jun, 1849
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Blackwell enrolled at La Maternité

    France
    Jun, 1849

    In June, Blackwell enrolled at La Maternité; a "lying-in" hospital, under the condition that she would be treated as a student midwife, not a physician. She made the acquaintance of Hippolyte Blot, a young resident physician at La Maternité. She gained much medical experience through his mentoring and training.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 13, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Engels joined an 800-member group of workers being formed as a military corps

    Central Europe (Present-Day Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Wednesday Jun 13, 1849

    On June 13, 1849, Engels joined an 800-member group of workers being formed as a military corps by August Willich, a former Prussian military officer. He was also a member of the Communist League and supported a revolutionary change in Germany.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Jun, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Palatine uprising

    Central Europe (Present-Day Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    Jun, 1849

    The Palatine uprising was a rebellion that took place in May and June 1849 in the Rhenish Palatinate, then an exclave territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Related to uprisings across the Rhine River in Baden, it was part of the widespread Imperial Constitution Campaign. Revolutionaries worked to defend the Constitution as well as to secede from the Kingdom of Bavaria.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
    Jun, 1849
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Joseph Martin Reichard appointed deputy in the Frankfurt Assembly

    Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
    Jun, 1849

    The provisional government first appointed Joseph Martin Reichard, a lawyer, democrat, and deputy in the Frankfurt Assembly, as the head of the military department in the Palatinate.


  • Rome, Italy
    Friday Jun 29, 1849
    Unification of Italy

    Rome capitulated on 29 June 1849

    Rome, Italy
    Friday Jun 29, 1849

    After a two-month siege, Rome capitulated on 29 June 1849 and the Pope was restored. Garibaldi and Mazzini once again fled into exile—in 1850 Garibaldi went to New York City.


  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    June 1856 Republican National Convention

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856

    At the June 1856 Republican National Convention, though Lincoln received support to run as vice president, John C. Frémont and William Dayton comprised the ticket, which Lincoln supported throughout Illinois. The Democrats nominated former Secretary of State James Buchanan and the Know-Nothings nominated former Whig President Millard Fillmore.


  • Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 17, 1858
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln's House Divided Speech

    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 17, 1858

    Accepting the nomination, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other". The speech created a stark image of the danger of disunion. The stage was then set for the election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas. When informed of Lincoln's nomination, Douglas stated, "[Lincoln] is the strong man of the party ... and if I beat him, my victory will be hardly won."


  • Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1859
    Unification of Italy

    Napoleon III's plans was succeed

    Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1859

    Napoleon III's plans worked and at the Battle of Solferino, France and Sardinia defeated Austria and forced negotiations; at the same time, in the northern part of Lombardy, the Italian volunteers known as the Hunters of the Alps, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, defeated the Austrians at Varese and Como.


  • Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Third Italian War of Independence

    Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860

    The Third Italian War of Independence was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire fought between June and August 1866. The conflict paralleled the Austro-Prussian War and resulted in Austria conceding the region of Venetia to France, which were later annexed by Italy after a plebiscite. Italy's acquisition of this wealthy and populous territory represented a major step in the process of Italian unification.


  • Italy
    Jun, 1861
    Unification of Italy

    Cavour died unexpectedly

    Italy
    Jun, 1861

    Cavour died unexpectedly in June 1861, at 50, and most of the many promises that he made to regional authorities to induce them to join the newly unified Italian kingdom were ignored. The new Kingdom of Italy was structured by renaming the old Kingdom of Sardinia and annexing all the new provinces into its structures. The first king was Victor Emmanuel II, who kept his old title.


  • Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
    Monday Jun 3, 1861
    Memorial day

    First civil war grave decorated

    Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
    Monday Jun 3, 1861

    On June 3, 1861, Warrenton, Virginia, was the location of the first Civil War soldier's grave ever to be decorated, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper article in 1906. This decoration was for the funeral of the first soldier killed in action during the Civil War, John Quincy Marr, who died on June 1, 1861, during a skirmish at Battle of Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia.


  • U.S
    Jun, 1861
    USA civil war

    Lincoln announced the Union blockade of all Southern ports

    U.S
    Jun, 1861

    In April 1861, Lincoln announced the Union blockade of all Southern ports; commercial ships could not get insurance and regular traffic ended. The South blundered in embargoing cotton exports in 1861 before the blockade was effective; by the time they realized the mistake, it was too late.


  • Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo

    Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, he sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo, where he gathered volunteers for the campaign, under the slogan o Roma o Morte. The garrison of Messina, loyal to the king's instructions, barred their passage to the mainland. Garibaldi's force, now numbering two thousand, turned south and set sail from Catania.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    1862 midterm elections

    U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    McClellan then resisted the president's demand that he pursue Lee's withdrawing army, while General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee. Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans; and after the 1862 midterm elections he replaced McClellan with Ambrose Burnside. The appointments were both politically neutral and adroit on Lincoln's part.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory, which Lincoln signed.


  • West Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln

    West Virginia was admitted to the Union

    West Virginia, U.S.
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863

    West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.


  • West Virginia, United States
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863
    USA civil war

    West Virginia separated from Virginia

    West Virginia, United States
    Saturday Jun 20, 1863

    West Virginia separated from Virginia and was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.


  • Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 19, 1866
    Juneteenth

    Freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration

    Texas, U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 19, 1866

    Formerly enslaved people in Galveston celebrated after the announcement. Freedmen in Texas organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on June 19. Early celebrations were used as political rallies to give voting instructions to newly freed slaves. Early independence celebrations often occurred on January 1 or 4.


  • New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1871
    Statue of Liberty

    Bartholdi went to the U.S.

    New York, U.S.
    Jun, 1871

    Due to the Franco-Prussian War, Bartholdi's home province of Alsace was lost to the Prussians, and a more liberal republic was installed in France. As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans. In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Jun 2, 1872
    Mother's Day

    Mother's Day (United States)

    U.S.
    Sunday Jun 2, 1872

    In 1872 Julia Ward Howe called for women to join in support of disarmament and asked for 2 June 1872, to be established as a "Mother's Day for Peace".


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 6, 1872
    Frederick Douglass

    First African American nominated for Vice President of the United States

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 6, 1872

    In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He was nominated without his knowledge. Douglass neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated.


  • U.S.
    Monday Jun 29, 1874
    Frederick Douglass

    Freedman's Savings Bank went bankrupt

    U.S.
    Monday Jun 29, 1874

    The Freedman's Savings Bank went bankrupt on June 29, 1874, just a few months after Douglass became its president in late March.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882
    Incandescent light bulb

    Swan sold his US Patent rights to the Brush Electric Company

    England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1882

    In Britain, the Edison and Swan companies merged into the Edison and Swan United Electric Company (later known as Ediswan, and ultimately incorporated into Thorn Lighting Ltd). Edison was initially against this combination, but after Swan sued him and won, Edison was eventually forced to cooperate, and the merger was made. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company. Swan sold his US patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June 1882.


  • Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882
    Igor Stravinsky

    Born

    Lomonosov (Then Oranienbaum), Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Saturday Jun 17, 1882

    Stravinsky was born on 17 June 1882 in Oranienbaum, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, the Russian imperial capital, and was brought up in Saint Petersburg.


  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1883
    John Maynard Keynes

    Birth

    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1883

    John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family.


  • Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1883
    Marie Curie

    Graduating From a Gymnasium For Girls

    Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Now Poland)
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1883

    When she was ten years old, Maria began attending the boarding school of J. Sikorska; next she attended a gymnasium for girls, from which she graduated on 12 June 1883 with a gold medal.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1884
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla emigrated to the United States

    U.S.
    Jun, 1884

    In June 1884, Tesla emigrated to the United States.


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