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June 17 in history

225 sourced entries recorded on June 17, from 337 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 337Constantius II announces the restoration of Athanasius, as Patriarch of Alexandria.source
  • 653Pope Martin I is arrested in the Lateran in Rome, along with Maximus the Confessor, on the orders of Emperor Constans II, and taken to imprisonment in Constantinople.source
  • 900Baldwin II, Count of Flanders has Fulk the Venerable, bishop of Reims, assassinated.source
  • 991June 17 – 18: The royal council of Saint-Basle de Verzy is marked by opposition between the bishops and the monks. Gerbert d'Aurillac is elected as the deposed Arnulf's successor as the Archbishop of Reims, to the anger of Pope John XV, who had no involvement in the decision.source
  • 1040Harthacnut lands at Sandwich and reclaims the throne of England which had been taken by Harald Harefoot in 1035.source
  • 1099A naval squadron of six Genoese ships led by Guglielmo Embriaco (loaded with military materials) enters the port of Jaffa; all except one are trapped by a larger Fatimid fleet.source
  • 1120Reconquista: Battle of Cutanda: The combined forces of Aragon and Navarre under King Alfonso the Battler crush the Almoravid army near Calamocha. Alfonso recaptures the fortified towns of Calatayud and Daroca.source
  • 1128King Henry I of England marries his only legitimate daughter, dowager Empress Matilda, to the 14-year-old Geoffrey Plantagenet ("the Fair"), count of Anjou, at Le Mans.source
  • 1207Stephen Langton is consecrated as archbishop of Canterbury in England by Innocent III at Viterbo.source
  • 1211Battle of Antioch on the Meander: Seljuk forces led by Sultan Kaykhusraw I are initially victorious with the Latin mercenary cavalry (some 800 men) bearing the brunt of the casualties due to their flanking charge; exhausted by the effort in their attack, the Latin army under Emperor Theodore I Laskaris is struck in the flank and rear by the Seljuk forces. However, the Seljuks stop the fight in order to plunder the Latin camp – which allows Theodore's forces to rally and counter-attack the now disorganized Turks. Meanwhile, Kaykhusraw seeks out Theodore and engages him in single combat, but he is unhorsed and beheaded. The Seljuks are routed and the former Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos, Theodore's father-in-law, is captured and imprisoned, ending his days in enforced monastic seclusion.source
  • 1239June 17 or June 18 – Edward I ("Longshanks"), first son of King Henry III of England and Queen Eleanor of Provence, is born at the Palace of Westminster. Henry names him after Edward the Confessor and chooses Simon de Montfort as his godfather.source
  • 1247Egyptian forces under Sultan As-Salih Ayyub capture Tiberias and his castle. Mount Tabor and Belvoir Castle are occupied soon afterward. Next, Ayyub moves his army to siege Ascalon – which is defended by a garrison of Knights Hospitaller. They summon the help from Acre and Cyprus.source
  • 1282Battle of Llandeilo Fawr: English forces led by Gilbert de Clare are ambushed and defeated by Welsh troops at Llandeilo. English expansion into southern Wales is halted.source
  • 1300In Finland, Turku Cathedral is consecrated by Bishop Magnus I at Turku. During his reign, he helps to complete the Christianization in Finland.source
  • 1314First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by King Edward II leave Berwick-upon-Tweed to march to break the Scottish siege of Stirling Castle. They cross the River Tweed at Wark and Coldstream and march west across the flat Merse of Berwickshire towards Lauderdale. In Earlston, Edward uses an old Roman road through the Lammermuir Hills, practical for the wheeled transport of a long supply train as well as the cavalry and infantry.source
  • 1349Charles IV is re-elected as Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his rival Günther.source
  • 1356The city of Lwów is granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III the Great, King of Poland. The advantages of the rights are not only economic, but also political.source
  • 1378In the wake of the recent defeat of the Genoese Navy at the battle of Capo d'Anzio, Domenico di Campofregoso, Doge of the Republic of Genoa, is removed from office by the Genoese Senate and replaced by Nicolò Guarco.source
  • 1389On the night of the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Käpplinge murders (Käpplingemorden) take place in Sweden at Käpplingeholmen when 76 Swedish men are taken prisoner, convicted of treason, then burned alive in a barn.source
  • 1397Erik of Pomerania is crowned in Kalmar (Sweden) as ruler of the Kalmar Union, a personal union of the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney) and Sweden (including Finland and Åland) engineered by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, his great-aunt and adoptive mother, who retains de facto power in the realm.source
  • 1442Friedrich, Duke of Inner Austria is crowned as Romanorum Rex, King of the Germans, and becomes the heir to the Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1462In the "Night Attack at Târgoviște", Vlad the Impaler ("Dracula") attempts to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.source
  • 1466Mülhausen, a free city within the Holy Roman Empire, joins the Swiss Confederacy in an alliance against the Habsburg dynasty including the Emperor Frederick III.source
  • 1497Battle of Deptford Bridge near London: Cornish rebels under Michael An Gof are soundly defeated by Henry VII.source
  • 1517A fleet of eight ships of the navy of Portugal, commanded by Fernão Pires de Andrade and dispatched from Goa by Portuguese India's Governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria on orders of King Manuel I, arrives in China at Canton (now Guangzhou) and brings the Ambassador Tomé Pires and his diplomatic corps to start trade and foreign relations.source
  • 1523Swedish War of Liberation: The surrender of Stockholm by Denmark is accepted by Sweden's King Gustav Vasa. In return, the city's defenders are allowed safe passage out of Sweden. King Gustav then makes his triumphant entry to the city on June 24.source
  • 1527The Narváez expedition to conquer Florida sets sail from Spain.source
  • 1527The Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden. The Riksdag of the Estates in Västerås adopts Lutheranism as the state religion, in place of Roman Catholicism. This results in the confiscation of church property and dissolution of Catholic convents in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden.source
  • 1528The Italian city of Rimini and its surrounding area, ruled by the House of Malatesta, is conquered by troops of the Papal States and subsequently annexed.source
  • 1546The Council of Trent approves its second decree on Roman Catholic doctrine, Decretum de Pecatto Originali, regarding original sin, declaring that excommunication should be applied to any person who denies the teaching that the sins of Adam in the Garden of Eden condemned all of humanity, or that Christian baptism remits the guilt of original sin.source
  • 1562June 17 Full moon of Waso 924 ME– King King Bayinnaung of Burma establishes an army garrison at Dawei in preparation for an attack against the Siamese Kingdom of Ayutthaya.source
  • 1565(19th day of 5th month, Eiroku 8); In Japan, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the Ashikaga shogun, commits ritual suicide after Matsunaga Hisahide invades Kyoto.source
  • 1579Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in modern-day California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called Nova Albion (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.source
  • 1583Spanish troops under the command of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma overwhelm a combined army of Dutch, French and English soldiers at the Battle of Steenbergen in the modern-day Netherlands. The multinational force sustains 3,200 people killed or wounded.source
  • 1596Willem Barents discovers Spitsbergen.source
  • 1602An expedition of 14 Dutch Republic ships, commanded by Admiral Wybrand van Warwijck, departs from Texel on its expedition to the East Indies.source
  • 1610Prince Christian was proclaimed as heir apparent to Christian IV of Norway, in Oslo.source
  • 1629Huguenot rebellions: Alès surrenders after an intense siege. As a result, the leader of the Huguenot Rebellions, the Duke of Rohan, surrenders.source
  • 1629Huguenot rebellions: Alès surrenders after an intense siege. As a result, the leader of the Huguenot Rebellions, the Duke of Rohan, surrenders.source
  • 1629Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630): A Spanish expedition, led by Fadrique de Toledo, wipes out the English colony on Nevis.source
  • 1631The death in childbirth of Mumtaz Mahal at Burhanpur causes her husband Shah Jahan to commission the Taj Mahal at Agra, as a mausoleum for her. Construction is started in 1632, and finished in 1653.source
  • 1651Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659); A squadron of Spanish galleys under John Joseph of Austria capture the French galleon Lion Couronné off Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain.source
  • 1665Battle of Montes Claros between Spanish and a combined Anglo-Portuguese force ends with a decisive Portuguese victory.source
  • 1673French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and descend to Arkansas.source
  • 1682The Indonesian city of Bandar Lampung is founded on the island of Sumatra.source
  • 169317 June (27 June New Style) – Nine Years' War: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet at the Battle of Lagos off Portugal.source
  • 1696Seven French ships attack five Dutch ships escorting a convoy of 112 merchant ships in the Battle of Dogger Bank.source
  • 1696The throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth becomes vacant with the death of Jan Sobieski, prompting a competition between Friedrich Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Prince François Louis of France to compete under the commonwealth's "Golden Liberty" system for an elective monarchy of the new king by the nobility. Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff, the Grand Chancellor, remains the head of the Polish-Lithuanian government during the vacancy of the ceremonial throne.source
  • 1704Total lunar eclipse takes place, Saros series 125.source
  • 1709Trịnh Cương becomes the new king of northern Vietnam (Đàng Ngoài) upon the death of his grandfather, Trịnh Căn, and begins a 20-year reign until his death on December 20, 1729source
  • 1712The newly built St Ann's Church, Manchester, England, is consecrated by the Bishop of Chester.source
  • 1747Vesting Act authorizes Scottish Court of Exchequer to inquire into the value of estates forfeited from participants in the Jacobite rising of 1745, most forfeitures being upheld, although the Indemnity Act lifts some legal penalties from the participants.source
  • 1767British Royal Navy Captain Samuel Wallis becomes the first European to visit the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean, during HMS Dolphins second circumnavigation; he also sights Mehetia.source
  • 1774June 16–17 – English explorer James Cook becomes the first European to sight (and name) Palmerston Island in the South Pacific Ocean.source
  • 1775American Revolution: Two months into the colonial siege of Boston, British open fire on Breed's Hill on Charles Town Peninsula. After 3 charges, the British take the hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill.source
  • 1776Lt. José Joaquín Moraga leads a band of colonists from Monterey Presidio, landing on June 29 and, with Father Francisco Palóu, constructing the Mission San Francisco de Asís ("Mission Dolores") of the new Presidio of San Francisco, the oldest surviving building in the modern-day city.source
  • 1788English captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall, returning from Botany Bay, become the first Europeans to encounter the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. They also chart islands in "Lord Mulgrove's range", later known as the Marshall Islands.source
  • 1789In France, representatives of the Third Estate at the Estates-General declare themselves the National Assembly.source
  • 1794The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom is established.source
  • 1794Battle of Mykonos: The British Royal Navy captures French frigate Sibylle.source
  • 1794June 17 - June 26 – Battle of Fleurus: The Austrians and their allies are defeated by France, leading to the loss of the Austrian Netherlands.source
  • 1795June 16–17 – War of the First Coalition: Cornwallis's Retreat – A British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fends off a numerically superior French Navy fleet, off the coast of Brittany.source
  • 1797Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ascended to the throne.source
  • 1799War of the Second Coalition: Battle of the Trebbia – The beginning of the battle that marked the debacle of Étienne Macdonald's French army. Suvorov scores a comprehensive victory.source
  • 1799June 17–19 - Battle of Trebbia (1799)source
  • 1806The Venus, Captain Samuel Chace, is taken piratically at Port Dalrymple (Launceston) and sails for New Zealand. There are two women, Charlotte Badger and convict Catherine Hagerty, among those who take over the ship.source
  • 1814In London, Alexander, Frederick William and George exchange their ratifications of the Peace Treaty ending the war with France.source
  • 1817Gowri Parvati Bayi, regent of Travancore announces state funding for Education.source
  • 1819Leigh returns to New South Wales. While in New Zealand he has conceived the idea of establishing a Wesleyan mission to the Māori. He returns to England before the end of the year with this proposition in mind. His report to Marsden leads to the appointment of John Gare Butler to head the second Church Missionary Society mission.source
  • 1823Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats.source
  • 1840June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.source
  • 1843In New Zealand, a posse of British settlers sent to arrest Māori chief Te Rauparaha clash with members of his Ngāti Toa tribe, resulting in 26 deaths.source
  • 1844Søren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety is published in Denmark (as Begrebet Angest by 'Vigilius Haufniensis').source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The main Russian forces, led by Ivan Paskevich, cross the Hungarian border, and together with the Austrian troops, led by Julius Jacob von Haynau, start the final attack against the Hungarian Revolution. Now the Hungarian revolutionary troops, numbering 173,000 soldiers, which even before the Russian attack were in inferiority regarding their numbers, and the quality of their weapons and war industry, face a force of 370,000 Austro-Russian forces, and other tens of thousands of Croatian, Serbian and Romanian insurgents, who serve the Habsburg imperial interests.source
  • 1858June 13–17 – The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.source
  • 1858The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad opens, operating 95 miles from Goldsboro, North Carolina, to New Bern, North Carolina.source
  • 1859The only recorded simoom ever in North America hits Goleta and Santa Barbara, California.source
  • 1863The Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg campaign ends inconclusively.source
  • 1865A fire breaks out in the eastern part of Nørresundby and ends up destroying much of the town.source
  • 1871The Parsons Sun newspaper in Parsons, Kansas is founded by Milton W. Reynolds and Leslie J. Perry, though the latter left after the first issue was published.source
  • 1876American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne, led by Crazy Horse, beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.source
  • 1876Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.source
  • 1877American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon, in the Idaho Territory. This begins the Nez Perce War.source
  • 1885The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.source
  • 1888Hans Jensen, businessperson (born 1817)source
  • 1892Establishment of the Count of Idanha-a-Nova title of nobilitysource
  • 1893Gold is found in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.source
  • 1899David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry, with the publication of his book Grundlagen der Geometrie, released at Göttingen.source
  • 1900Boxer Rebellion: Battle of Dagu Forts – Naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture the Taku Forts, on the Hai River estuary in China.source
  • 1905Austrian Football Club FC Admira Wacker is founded as SK Admira Wien in Vienna.source
  • 1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
  • 1910Khodynka Aerodrome founded.source
  • 1914June 12–18 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.source
  • 1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
  • 1928Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmer Stultz is the pilot.source
  • 1928June 17 – 18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a successful transatlantic flight, as a passenger in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m piloted by Wilmer Stultz, from Newfoundland to Wales.source
  • 1930President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, implementing protectionist trade policies in the United States. It has the incidental effect of defining an antique as older than 1830.source
  • 1933Kansas City massacre: At the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, gangsters kill four law enforcement officers and detained fugitive bank robber Frank Nash.source
  • 1939In the last public execution in France, 6-times murderer Eugen Weidmann is guillotined.source
  • 1940Occupation of the Baltic states: The Soviet Union occupies Estonia and Latvia.source
  • 1940Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France, and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.source
  • 1940The Red Army occupied Estonia and Latvia.source
  • 1940WWII: Assets of all foreign nationals from France and Monaco are frozen.source
  • 1940RMS Lancastria, serving as a troopship, is bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft, while evacuating British troops and nationals from Saint-Nazaire in France, with the loss of at least 4,000 lives, the largest single UK loss in any World War II event, immediate news of which is suppressed in the British press. Destroyer HMS Beagle rescues around 600.source
  • 1940A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5,800 men. (Wartime censorship prevents the story from becoming public.)source
  • 1943British aircraft carrier HMS Campania is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.source
  • 1946Formal ratification of the Treaty of London grants independence to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan.source
  • 1947Icelandic airline Loftleiðir commences its first international flight, from Reykjavík to Copenhagen.source
  • 1948United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing 43 and injuring 84 people on board.source
  • 1953Workers' Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a Division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.source
  • 1954A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala.source
  • 1959President Juscelino Kubitschek decides to break away with the IMF, due to pressure on meeting loan requirements.source
  • 1961The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded, with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.source
  • 1962The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.source
  • 1962K-3 becomes the first Soviet submarine to reach the North Pole.source
  • 1962Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1, to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup.source
  • 1962Brazil defeats Czechoslovakia 3–1 to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final in Chile. Brazil wins its second FIFA World Cup.source
  • 1963In Abington School District v. Schempp, the US Supreme Court ruled that compulsory prayer and Bible-reading violated the First Amendment.source
  • 1966An Air France personnel strike begins.source
  • 1967The Israeli government transfers day-to-day control of the Temple Mount site to the Islamic Waqf.source
  • 1967Project 639: The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.source
  • 1967The municipality of Quirino, in the province of Isabela is established through the enacted Republic Act No. 4901.source
  • 1968The Communist Party of Malaya launched an ambush of security forces in the area of Kroh–Betong road between Pengkalan Hulu town and the Malaysia-Thailand border, killing 17 members of the security forces. This event marked the start of the second armed revolt of the Communist Party of Malaya known as the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–89).source
  • 1969After a 23-game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.source
  • 1971President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. war on drugs.source
  • 1972Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new government.source
  • 1972Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1974A bomb explodes in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the British Houses of Parliament. The hall's annex, housing offices, and a canteen are destroyed by the bombing, attributed by police to the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1984Legislative and European elections are held. The LSAP increases its representation in the Chamber of Deputies by half.source
  • 1986The National University Hospital is officially opened.source
  • 1987With the death of the last known individual, the dusky seaside sparrow, a subspecies native to the US state of Florida, becomes extinct.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
  • 1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.source
  • 1994NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.source
  • 1994The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.source
  • 1995June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisissource
  • 2000A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.source
  • 2001The 51st Vuelta a Colombia begins Ciudad de Popayán, Cauca.source
  • 2007Sierra Leone lost to Mali 0-3 in Bamakosource
  • 2012Snap legislative elections are held in Greece, following failure to form a government, to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the New Democracy party, led by Antonis Samaras, comes out as the largest party winning 129 out of 300 seats.source
  • 2013prime minister Petr Nečas submits his resignation after a corruption scandal.source
  • 2013Nigeria's national football team beat Tahiti 6–1.source
  • 2014North Korean propaganda videos show that they have developed a cruise missile similar to the Russian Kh-35 model.source
  • 2016Having a mechanical failure in mid-ocean, a Sri Lankan migrant boat landed in Lhoknga, Aceh to seek help. They asked if the Indonesian Government could request help from the UNHCR, so the migrants could continue their journey to Christmas Island, Australia.source
  • 2019A triple suicide blast kills 30 and injures over 40 in Borno, Nigeria, at a hall where people were watching a football match.source
  • 2021The China National Space Administration sends its first three astronauts to occupy the Tiangong Space Station, the country's first space station.source
  • 2025June 16–17 – The 51st G7 summit is held in Kananaskis, Canada.source

Births

  • 801Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagnesource
  • 1239June 17 or June 18 – Edward I ("Longshanks"), king of England (died 1307)source
  • 1530François de Montmorency, French nobleman (died 1579)source
  • 1571Thomas Mun, English writer on economics (died 1641)source
  • 1603Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (died 1663)source
  • 1604John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (died 1679)source
  • 1610Birgitte Thott, Danish scholar, writer and translator (born 1662)source
  • 1610Birgitte Thott, writer and feminist scholar (died 1662)source
  • 1625Peder Hansen Resen, Danish historian (died 1688)source
  • 1625Peder Hansen Resen, historian and legal scholar (died 1688)source
  • 1660Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (died 1690)source
  • 1676Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (died 1718)source
  • 1682King Charles XII of Sweden (died 1718)source
  • 1682Charles XII of Sweden, monarch (died 1718)source
  • 1691Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (died 1765)source
  • 1700François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, explorer and soldier. (died 1736)source
  • 1704John Kay, inventor of the flying shuttle (died 1780)source
  • 1751Joshua Humphreys, American naval architect (died 1838)source
  • 1772Hans Peter Holm, naval officer (died 1812)source
  • 1808Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (died 1845)source
  • 1818Charles Gounod, French composer (died 1893)source
  • 1832Sir William Crookes, English chemist, physicist (died 1919)source
  • 1882Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (died 1971)source
  • 1900Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (died 1945)source
  • 1943Newt Gingrich, American politician, author and historiansource
  • 1961Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actorsource
  • 1971Paulina Rubio, Mexican singersource
  • 1975Phiyada Akkraseranee, actresssource
  • 1987Kendrick Lamar, American rappersource

Deaths

  • 656Uthman ibn Affan is murdered at Medina after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali ibn Abi-Talib, who becomes the fourth caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. He makes Kufah (Iraq) his capital, but the succession is disputed.source
  • 676Pope Adeodatus II dies at Rome after a reign of 4 years. He is succeeded by Donus as the 78th pope.source
  • 811Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Japanese shōgun (born 758)source
  • 900Fulk, archbishop of Reimssource
  • 1025Mieszko II Lambert becomes the second King of Poland after the sudden death of his father, King Bolesław I the Bravesource
  • 1025Bolesław I the Brave, king of Poland (born 967)source
  • 1031Hyeonjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (born 992)source
  • 1091Dirk V, count of Friesland (west of the Vlie) (born 1052)source
  • 1211Kaykhusraw I, ruler of the Sultanate of Rumsource
  • 1219David of Scotland, Scottish nobleman (b 1152)source
  • 1254Ingeborg Eriksdotter, Swedish princess (born 1212)source
  • 1275Arghun Aqa the Elder, Mongol nobleman (born 1210)source
  • 1361Ingeborg of Norway, princess consort and regent of Sweden (born 1301)source
  • 1400Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague (born 1348)source
  • 1463Infanta Catherine of Portugal, religious sister (born 1436)source
  • 1501John I Albert of Poland (born 1459)source
  • 1501Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania since 1492, becomes the new King of Poland upon the sudden death of his older brother, Jan I Olbracht.source
  • 1504Rao Bika Rathore, ruler of the Kingdom of Bikaner in India, dies after a reign of 32 years. For a brief time Bika is succeeded by his elder son Nara, but Nara quickly dies and Nara is succeeded by his brother Lunkaran.source
  • 1565Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)source
  • 1579Johannes Stadius, Flemish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (born 1527)source
  • 1592Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (born 1545)source
  • 1614William Bathe, Jesuit priest and linguist (born 1564)source
  • 1631Mumtaz Mahal, favorite wife of Shah Jahan (born 1593)source
  • 1632Shah Jahan's beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal dies, after giving birth to their 14th child. Soon after, construction of the Taj Mahal, begins.source
  • 1641Emirgûneoğlu Yusuf Paşa, Ottoman grand vizier (born 1605)source
  • 1649Injo of Joseon, sixteenth king of the Joseon dynasty in Korea (born 1595)source
  • 1678Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (born 1608)source
  • 1696John III Sobieski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (born 1629)source
  • 1696Jørgen Bjelke, military officer (born 1721 in Norway)source
  • 1719Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (born 1672)source
  • 1719Joseph Addison, writer and politician (born 1672)source
  • 1734Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (born 1653)source
  • 1734French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed.source
  • 1740William Wyndham, English politician (born 1687)source
  • 1775Joseph Warren, American doctor (born 1741)source
  • 1775Andrew McClary, soldier and major in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (born 1730)source
  • 1787José de Gálvez, Spanish politician (born 1720)source
  • 1791Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (born 1707)source
  • 1797Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (born 1742)source
  • 1797Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran (born 1742)source
  • 1797Mohammad Khan Qajar, first king of Qajar Dynasty, was assassinated in Shusha, capital of Karabakh Khanate.source
  • 1860Salvador Sanfuentes (born 1817)source
  • 1862Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, English Viceroy of India (born 1812)source
  • 1866Lewis Cass, American military officer, politician, and statesman (born 1782)source
  • 1874Sir Stephen Glynne, British antiquary and politician (born 1817)source
  • 1925Anghel Saligny, engineer and designer of the Anghel Saligny Bridge (born 1854).source
  • 1952Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer (born 1914)source