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June 10 in history

233 sourced entries recorded on June 10, from 323 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 671Emperor Tenji introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu in Japan.source
  • 731The Mercian Tatwine is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 901Abu Abbas Abdallah crosses the Strait of Messina and proceeds to Reggio Calabria. Appearing before its walls, the Byzantine garrison flees, surrendering the city to the Aghlabids.source
  • 1179Battle of Marj Ayyun: A Crusader army (some 10,000 men) led by Baldwin IV is defeated by Muslim forces under Saladin near the Litani River (modern Lebanon). The Knights Templar join the battle, but they are driven back in confusion. Baldwin narrowly escapes being captured in the route. Amongst Saladin's prisoners are Odo de St. Amand, Grand Master of the Templars, and Lord Baldwin of Ibelin.source
  • 1190Frederick I drowns while crossing (or bathing in) the Göksu River near Selucia (modern-day Silifke) in Armenian Cilicia. The German Crusaders are demoralized and exhausted by the summer heat, Frederick VI takes over the command of his father, carrying with him the emperor's body preserved in a barrel of vinegar. Some of the German nobles decide to return home with their followers; Frederick continues with his army (some 5,000 men) and eventually reaches Antioch, on June 21.source
  • 1225Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of two friars to Morocco. The bull is reissued in October when Honorius III exhorts the Dominican and Franciscan order to participate in that mission.source
  • 1329Braganstown massacre, County Louth: over 160 killed.source
  • 1368Michele Morosini becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Venice and replaces the late Doge Andrea Contarini, but he serves for only four months before dying in office at the age of 74.source
  • 1376Wenceslaus the Idle, son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is elected King of the Romans by the prince-electors.source
  • 1382Michele Morosini is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, five days after the death of Andrea Contarini, but serves for only four months before dying in office.source
  • 1385English invasion of Scotland (1385): Preparing to lead invade Scotland as soon as the truce between England and Scotland expires on July 15, King Richard II of England assembles an army at Nottingham.source
  • 1413Ludwig becomes the new monarch of the German principality of Hesse upon the death of his father, Hermann II, Landgrave of Hesse.source
  • 1421One year after returning home for his marriage to Catherine of Valois, and in the English defeat in the Battle of Baugé, King Henry V of England sails back to France with new troops to continue fighting in the Hundred Years' War.source
  • 1422September – The Ottoman sultan Murad II besieges Constantinople; the siege is broken off as a result of the rebellion of Küçük Mustafa.source
  • 1477Emperor Frederick II confirms his support of Vladislav Jagellonský as King of Bohemia, leading to Matthias Corvinus declaring war on the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1498The Battle of Laaksum is fought in Friesland in the Netherlands at Stavoren and Warns, bringing an end to the civil war fought for almost a century between the Vetkopers and Schieringers. The Scheringers are triumphant after agreeing to allow Albert III, Duke of Saxony to annex Friesland in return for Albert's protection.source
  • 1499Pope Alexander VI informs the Roman Catholic cardinals that the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire has amassed a fleet of 300 ships to lay siege to the city of Rhodes.source
  • 1520Revolt of the Comuneros: Segovia is blockaded.source
  • 1523Frederick begins the 8-day siege of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The city surrenders on 6 January 1524.source
  • 1540Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister for King Henry VIII, is arrested at meeting of the Privy Council of England at Westminster and charged with treason. Cromwell is removed from his positions as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Great Chamberlain and Governor of the Isle of Wight, and will be executed on July 28.source
  • 1557The New Testament of the Geneva Bible, a Protestant Bible translation into English (produced under the supervision of William Whittingham, and printed in Roman type), is published in Geneva.source
  • 1562English Catholic printer Thomas Somerset is jailed at Fleet Prison "for translating an oratyon out of Frenche, made by the Cardinall of Lorraine, and putting the same without authority in prynte." On June 27, he is summoned before the Lords of the Council for a parole hearing, but is turned down because "he seamed to go about to justifye his cause" and returned to Fleet, "there to remaine until he shall have better considered of himself." He remains imprisoned for more than 19 years before finally being released on February 28, 1582.source
  • 1566In Znojmo (in the modern-day Czech Republic), Wilhelm von Rosenberg, commander of the Army of the Kingdom of Bohemia, begins raising an army to fight an expected invasion by the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1568Regent Moray musters forces at Biggar for a march on Dumfries.source
  • 1569German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny, near Limoges.source
  • 1570The Kingdom of Livonia is established.source
  • 1574Manila, Philippines gains cityhood.source
  • 1574Construction of The White Tower begins in the Czech Republic.source
  • 1591Deventer is captured by the Dutch, under Maurice of Nassau.source
  • 1592The Siege of Bihać begins in the Kingdom of Croatia, by Telli Hasan Pasha (Hasan Predojević) of the Ottoman Empire. Bihać is captured on June 19 and is lost for Croatia forever.source
  • 1596Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.source
  • 1607In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.source
  • 1609The War of the Jülich Succession begins as the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg sign a treaty at Dortmund and then send troops to establish Protestant Union rule in the Roman Catholic United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.source
  • 1610Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.source
  • 1619Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.source
  • 1624Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1624Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1628Brussels government issues directives for the maintenance of roads, ditches and bridges.source
  • 1642Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Archbishop of Mexico, dismisses the Viceroy of New Spain, Diego López Pacheco, allegedly on orders of King Philip IV, and takes office as the new Viceroy. Palafox is in office for only five months before being recalled to Spain.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell is confirmed as the Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry.source
  • 1647The Battle of Puerto de Cavite begins in the Spanish Philippines when an armada of 12 large warships from the Dutch Republic sails into Manila Bay, with cannon fire hitting many of the roofs of the city. The Spanish defending fleet drives off the Dutch after a two day battle.source
  • 1659Dara Shikoh, at one time the heir apparent for the Mughal Empire, is betrayed by an Afghan chieftain, Junaid Khan Barozai, who had initially given him refuge from pursuit from the new emperor, Aurangzeb. Turned over to Aurangzeb's men, Dara Shikoh is killed on August 30.source
  • 1670King Louis XIV of France issues an ordinance prohibiting the French colonies in the Americas from trading with any other nation except France.source
  • 1671the King permits Sir George Hamilton to raise a regiment for service in France.source
  • 1678French buccaneer Michel de Grammont arrives at Spanish-held Venezuela with six pirate ships, 13 smaller craft, and 2,000 men in a daring raid on the South American territory, then leads half of his force inward toward Maracaibo, which he takes on June 14. During the rest of the month, he and his soldiers march inland as far as Trujillo. Grammont and his pirates finally depart on December 3.source
  • 1680England and Spain sign a mutual defense treaty.source
  • 1688The birth of James Francis Edward Stuart (later known as the Old Pretender), son and heir to James II of England and his Catholic wife Mary of Modena, at St James's Palace in London, increases public disquiet about a Catholic dynasty, particularly when the baby is baptised into the Catholic faith. Rumours about his true maternity swiftly begin to circulate.source
  • 1688birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, son to King James II and his Catholic wife Mary of Modena, at St James's Palace in London. Rumours about his true maternity swiftly begin to circulate.source
  • 1692The Salem witch trials' first victim, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft.source
  • 1697The last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when the five Paisley witches are hanged and then burned in Scotland.source
  • 1710Watkin Williams-Wynn, heir to a baronetcy, establishes the "Cycle of the White Rose", a Jacobite group, in North Wales.source
  • 1712Kurtkulağı Caravanserai in Adana Province, Turkey, is restored and 50 soldiers are appointed to guard it.source
  • 1715A Jacobite mob sacks Cross Street Chapel in Manchester, going on to destroy another at Monton.source
  • 1719Battle of Glen Shiel: British forces defeat the Jacobites and their Spanish allies in Scotland.source
  • 1719Battle of Glen Shiel: British Government troops defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces. Spanish forces had supported the Jacobites, under the command of Major General Wightman, in an effort to strain the British Government's resources.source
  • 1719British Government forces defeat an alliance of Jacobite and Spanish forces at the Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland.source
  • 1758June 9–10 – Spanish-Barbary Wars – Battle of Cape Palos: a Spanish squadron of three ships of the line defeats a Barbary squadron made up of a ship of the line and a frigate.source
  • 1770first voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook discovers the Great Barrier Reef when HMS Endeavour runs aground on it.source
  • 1772The crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks to fail, extends to Scotland, Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy.source
  • 1772Credit crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner, Aberdeen-born Alexander Fordyce, to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes failure of other banks, particularly in Scotland, and especially in Edinburgh and the Ayr Bank.source
  • 1772credit crisis of 1772 is triggered when, following the flight of their partner Alexander Fordyce to France, the London banking house of Neal, James, Fordyce and Down (which has been speculating in East India Company stock) suspends payment. The resultant panic causes other banks, particularly in Scotland, to fail, extends to Amsterdam and the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, and threatens the East India Company with bankruptcy.source
  • 1773The Regulating Act is given royal assent by King George III, creating the office of Governor General, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory under British East India Company rule in India.source
  • 1786An earthquake-caused landslide dam on the Dadu River gives way, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.source
  • 1791Constitutional Act, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.source
  • 1791Roman Catholic Relief Act, relieving Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities.source
  • 1793French Revolution: The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle are created by the National Convention. The museum opens in Paris the following year, and the garden houses one of the first public zoos.source
  • 1793French Revolution: The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle are created by the National Convention. The museum opens in Paris the following year, and the garden houses one of the first public zoos.source
  • 1794Law of 22 Prairial enacted, also known as the loi de la Grande Terreur.source
  • 1807The Battle of Heilsberg ends in a draw.source
  • 1811A volcanic eruption briefly creates Sabrina Island (Azores).source
  • 1811A volcanic eruption, observed from Royal Navy sloop HMS Sabrina, creates Sabrina Island (Azores) which on 4 July is claimed for Britain; a few months later it sinks beneath the sea.source
  • 1818The British Parliament is dissolved by the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool, and new elections are scheduled for August 4 for the House of Commons.source
  • 1820Sir Thomas Munro is appointed as the British colonial Governor of the Madras Presidency, which encompasses most of southern India.source
  • 1829The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race, rowed at Henley-on-Thames.source
  • 1834Belgian bishops announce plans to establish a Catholic University (later to become Catholic University of Leuven).source
  • 1837The first whale is caught in Western Australia.source
  • 1839Major Chartist meeting on Glasgow Green.source
  • 1840Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are shot at.source
  • 1841President José Miguel de Velasco is ousted in a coup d'état by Sebastián Ágreda.source
  • 1841The Stocks punishment, already restricted and generally fallen of use, is banned.source
  • 1846Mexican–American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.source
  • 1848June 2–12 – The Prague Slavic Congress brings together members of the Pan-Slavism movement.source
  • 1854The first class of the United States Naval Academy graduates at Annapolis, Maryland.source
  • 1858Establishment of Bolhrad High School in Moldaviasource
  • 1861The Oswestry and Newtown Railway is completed throughout by opening of the section between Abermule and Newtown, giving through rail communication from England to Llanidloes.source
  • 1865Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts at the Munich Court Theatre.source
  • 1869an underground explosion at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda kills 53.source
  • 1871Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on the Han River forts in Korea.source
  • 1871United States expedition to Korea: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 members of the United States Marine Corps in a punitive naval attack on the Han River forts on Ganghwa Island in Korea, resulting in 250 Koreans dying and diplomatic failure to "open up" Korea.source
  • 1878Konrad Korzeniowski, the future novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on English soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS Mavis.source
  • 1878The League of Prizren is officially founded "to struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".source
  • 1882Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.source
  • 1885breed standard for Highland cattle first defined (in Inverness) and herd book first produced.source
  • 1886The Mount Tarawera volcano erupts in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.source
  • 1886Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano results in the deaths of ~150 people and the (wrongly assumed) destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces, an error corrected by 2017 research disclosing the locations of the Pink and White Terraces around today's lake.source
  • 1900Second round of the Italian general election. The Pelloux government fails to win a majority of seats. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the Historical Left led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats. The model of strong government advocated by the conservative Sidney Sonnino is discredited. More moderate politicians like Zanardelli and Giolitti resort back to more "conciliatory" politics.source
  • 1900June 10–28 — Seymour Expeditionsource
  • 1907August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala.source
  • 1910Fremad Amager is founded.source
  • 1916The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, to create a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo to Aden, is formally declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.source
  • 1918WWI: The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.source
  • 1921Paris declaration: Representatives of the three states of Transcaucasia and the North Caucasus (the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian Socialist Soviet Republics) proclaim their independence, establishing a customs union and military alliance, not internationally recognized.source
  • 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
  • 1926June 10th Movement: public displays of Korean resistance organized by students against Japanese rule take place in Korea.source
  • 1930Agreement between Turkey and Greece concerning the population exchange problems in the 1920s.source
  • 1931The Schienenzeppelin, an experimental propeller driven railcar, sets up a new world railway speed record of 230 km/h on its way from Hamburg to Berlin which is not surpassed by any other train for 24 years.source
  • 1933The Australian Women's Weekly is first published.source
  • 1933Draw 2–2 vs Australian XI at Newcastlesource
  • 1934Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2–1 after extra time, to win the 1934 World Cup, staged in Italy.source
  • 1935Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.source
  • 1937National Democratic Union, ahead of support for the candidacy of Armando Sales de Oliveira for president in the 1938 elections is created.source
  • 1940Count Ciano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, relays Italy's declaration of war to André François-Poncet, the French Ambassador to Italy, declaring war on both the United Kingdom and France. This begins Italy's participation in World War II.source
  • 1947SAAB in Sweden produces its first automobile.source
  • 1948The Syrian Army destroys the Jewish settlement Mishmar HaYarden in the Upper Galilee.source
  • 19511951 Mongolian parliamentary election.source
  • 19521952 San Juan earthquake. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake kills five people on Argentina's San Juan Province.source
  • 19561956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden (all other events are held in November in Melbourne, Australia).source
  • 1960The "Hagerty Incident": As part of the ongoing Anpo protests in Japan against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, a car carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower's press secretary James Hagerty and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II is mobbed by protesters outside of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, requiring the occupants to be rescued by a U.S. Marine helicopter.source
  • 1960A TAA Fokker Friendship, Abel Tasman, crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons. To date (2020), this remains the worst loss of life in a peacetime air crash in Australia.source
  • 1964The GTEPE (Special Project Study and Study Group), a precursor to GETEPE (Space Project Study and Executive Group), is created.source
  • 1965Vietnam War – Battle of Dong Xoai: About 1,500 Viet Cong mount a mortar attack on Đồng Xoài, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.source
  • 1967Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.source
  • 1967Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.source
  • 1968Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Championship in Association football. The original final on June 8 ended 1–1.source
  • 1971Opening of the Metro Observatorio.source
  • 1971Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.source
  • 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
  • 1973Henri Pescarolo and co-driver Gérard Larrousse (both France) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670B.source
  • 1978Affirmed holds off Alydar to win the Belmont Stakes and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1980Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.source
  • 1981Alfredo Rampi, a 6-year-old boy, falls into an artesian well in Vermicino, near Rome. After nearly three days of failed rescue attempts followed with bated breath from all over Italy, Alfredo dies inside the well, at a depth of 60 m.source
  • 1983Juan Francisco Fresno assumes as Archbishop of Santiago after the resignation of Raúl Silva Henríquez.source
  • 1984A Soviet soldier defects to West Germany across the inner German border, the first such defection since 1976.source
  • 1988June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.source
  • 1988June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.source
  • 1989June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.source
  • 1991Pol Espargaró, motorcycle racersource
  • 1992June 3–14 – The Earth Summit is held in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1992June 10–26 – Sweden hosts the UEFA Euro 1992 football tournament, which is won by Denmark.source
  • 1997Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.source
  • 1998The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.source
  • 1998July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.source
  • 1999Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.source
  • 2000July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.source
  • 2002British scientist Kevin Warwick carries out first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans.source
  • 2003June 8-10: A failed military coup attempted to overthrow the President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.source
  • 2003NASA launches the Spirit rover.source
  • 2006Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 2007June 10–15 – Fatah-Hamas conflict: The Battle of Gaza is fought between Fatah and Hamas, and ends with Hamas gaining control of the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2008June 10 – 13 – The Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict occurred between the forces of the country and Djibouti.source
  • 2010June 10–14 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.source
  • 2016Christina Grimmie is shot dead while signing autographs and taking pictures with her fans following a concert performance at the Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida.source
  • 2016July 10 – France hosts the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament, which is won by Portugal.source
  • 2017The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.source
  • 2020Prime Minister Malielegaoi announced the relaxation of lockdown restrictions on religious services, street vendors, weddings, and village matai councils. Street vendors will only be allowed to sell fruits, vegetables, cooked food and certain textiles while selling on footpaths will remain prohibited. Churches must practise two-meters social distancing but major events such as church conferences and national meetings remain prohibited. The new State of Emergency rules also allowed weddings in hotels but limited the guest list to 50 people. Market activities, beach and river excursions are banned on Sunday. There remains a five-person limit on funerals, traditional title bestowals, birthdays, reunions, and opening ceremonies for building.source
  • 2021An annular solar eclipse is visible from Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.source
  • 2024A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.source
  • 2024The World Bank approves a US$45 million project to boost coastal flood resilience in Guyana under the Low Carbon Development Strategy.source

Births

  • 866Uda, emperor of Japan (died 931)source
  • 940Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (died 998)source
  • 1213Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian philosopher and Sufi mysticsource
  • 1465Mercurino di Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (died 1530)source
  • 1513Louis, Duke of Montpensier (1561–1582) (died 1582)source
  • 1632Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (died 1710)source
  • 1672Christen Worm, theologian (died 1737)source
  • 1688James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, claimant to the English and Scottish throne (died 1766)source
  • 1688James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (died 1766)source
  • 1703Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde, Irish landowner (died 1783)source
  • 1819Gustave Courbet, French painter (died 1877)source
  • 1886Sessue Hayakawa, actor (died 1973)source
  • 1910Howlin' Wolf, American blues musician (died 1976)source
  • 1921Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-born member of the British royal family as consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021)source
  • 1922Judy Garland, American singer, actress (died 1969)source
  • 1959Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and managersource
  • 1983Nélson Marcos, footballersource

Deaths

  • 323 BCE10 June/11 June – In Babylon, Alexander the Great dies, ten days after being taken ill after a prolonged banquet and drinking bout. Diogenes, the philosopher he met years before, when he was just about to set out on his conquests, allegedly dies on the exact same day.source
  • 38Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (born AD 16)source
  • 223Liu Bei, Chinese warlord and emperor (born 161)source
  • 754Caliph as-Saffah dies of smallpox after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his nominated heir and brother al-Mansur, as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.source
  • 754Abul Abbas al-Saffah, Muslim caliphsource
  • 779Dai Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 727)source
  • 838Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya, Muslim emirsource
  • 871Odo I, Frankish noblemansource
  • 903Cheng Rui, Chinese warlordsource
  • 932Dong Zhang, Chinese generalsource
  • 942Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han (born 889)source
  • 995Fujiwara no Michikane dies.source
  • 1026Hugh II, French viscount and archbishopsource
  • 1051June 10/11 – Bardo, German abbot and archbishopsource
  • 1075Ernest (the Brave), margrave of Austria (born 1027)source
  • 1141Richenza of Northeim, German empress (born c. 1087/89)source
  • 1155Sigurd II, king of Norway (born 1133)source
  • 1190Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122)source
  • 1236Diana degli Andalò, Italian nun and saint (born 1201)source
  • 1247Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Spanish bishop (born 1170)source
  • 1329Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: Over 160 are killed.source
  • 1329Maol Ruanaidh Cam Ó Cearbhaill, tiompan musician, in Braganstown massacre.source
  • 1338Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (born 1318; d. in battle)source
  • 1423Gil Sánchez Muñoz y Carbón, a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop, is elected by bishops in Avignon as the third "antipope", succeeding the late Antipope Benedict XIII, who had died on May 23 after a reign of more than 20 years. Sánchez Muñoz takes the name of Antipope Clement VIII as the Avignon clergy disagree with Pope Martin V of Rome.source
  • 1424Duke Ernest of Austria (born 1377)source
  • 1437Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (born 1370)source
  • 1439Joseph II, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the 155th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, dies after a reign of 23 years, leaving a vacancy that is used by the Roman Catholic Pope Eugene IV to declare a unification of the two churches to end the East–West Schism of 1054.source
  • 1468Idris Imad al-Din, supreme leader of Tayyibi Isma'ilism, scholar and historian (born 1392)source
  • 1548(5th day of the waxing moon in the 8th month of the 910th year of the Chula Sakarat Era): Yotfa, the 13-year-old ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom of Thailand since 1546, is murdered with the consent of his mother, the regent Si Sudachan, who installs her lover, Worawongsathirat, on the throne. Yotfa's younger brother, Prince Sissin, is spared from execution. Worawongsathirat and Si Sudachan are both killed in a counter-coup in November.source
  • 1563William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (born 1506)source
  • 1580Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c. 1524)source
  • 1584François, Duke of Anjou (born 1555)source
  • 1584François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.(b.1555)source
  • 1604Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (born 1562)source
  • 1607John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (born 1531)source
  • 1654Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1598)source
  • 1696Charles de Courbon de Blénac, French colonial administrator (born 1622)source
  • 1705Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan minister (born 1631)source
  • 1735Thomas Hearne, British antiquarian (born 1678)source
  • 1753Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (born 1678)source
  • 1776Death of King Hsinbyushin of the Konbaung dynasty in Burma.source
  • 1791Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (born 1720)source
  • 1799Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Guadeloupe-born French musician (born 1745)source
  • 1838Myall Creek massacre: 28 Indigenous Australians are killed.source
  • 1868Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, is assassinated in Košutnjak, Belgrade.source
  • 1906Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1845)source
  • 1924Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist politician (assassinated) (born 1885)source
  • 1926Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (born 1852)source
  • 1934Frederick Delius, British composer (born 1862)source
  • 1940Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur and black nationalist (born 1887)source
  • 1944WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: 642 men, women and children are killed in France in a reprisal attack by the Waffen-SS.source
  • 1946Jack Johnson, American boxer (born 1878)source
  • 1982Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 37, German filmmaker, dramatist and actor, one of the major figures of the New German Cinema movement, death from drug overdose, due to a combination of cocaine and barbituratessource
  • 2000Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.source
  • 2002John Gotti, 61, Italian-American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family, throat cancer.source
  • 2004Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure.source
  • 202510 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after a gunman opens fire at a school in Graz, Austria.source