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June 23 in history

213 sourced entries recorded on June 23, from 47 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 229Chinese warlord Sun Quan formally declares himself emperor of the Eastern Wu state. The city of Jianye (modern Nanjing) is founded as the capital of Eastern Wu. The independent kingdoms in Cambodia and Laos become Eastern Wu vassals.source
  • 624While at Ganzak at what is now northwest Iran, the Sassanid Emperor Khosrow II (Chosroes) is informed by soldiers who had escaped capture that Emperor Heraclius of Byzantium is preparing a surprise attack. Khosrow dispatches an envoy to inform General Shahrbaraz to abandon a campaign in Asia Minor and to accompany him to face Heraclius.source
  • 741Kʼawiil Chan Kʼinich becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state at Dos Pilas in Guatemala after the death of Ucha'an K'in B'alam and reigns until 761 when he is forced to flee during an uprising by rebels from Tamarindito.source
  • 964Benedict V is deposed and ecclesiastically degraded after Otto I besieges Rome. He starves the Romans into submission and restores Leo VIII to the papal throne.source
  • 966Arab–Byzantine wars: A prisoner exchange occurs at the border between the Byzantine Empire and the Emirate of Aleppo at Samosata, headed by Emperor Nikephoros II and Sayf al-Dawla, the Emir of Aleppo. The Emirate receives 3,000 captured prisoners from the region of Cilicia, after its conquest by the Byzantine Emperor, as well as the poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani, who has previously been held prisoner by the Byzantines.source
  • 994Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.source
  • 1203The Crusader fleet comes within sight of Constantinople, and enters the Bosporus. The Byzantine capital is defended by a garrison of 15,000 soldiers (including 5,000 men of the Varangian Guard), and a fleet of 20 galleys. On June 26, the Byzantine troops skirmish with the Crusader forces, who attack, without success, the cities of Chalcedon and Chrysopolis.source
  • 1266Battle of Trapani: The Venetian fleet (24 galleys) led by Admiral Jacopo Dondulo moves to Marsala and attacks the larger Genoese fleet anchored at Trapani, capturing all its ships. Some 1,200 Genoese drown and many are killed. Dondulo is acclaimed a hero on his return to Venice in July and elected as Captain General of the Sea, Venice's highest naval command position.source
  • 1280Reconquista: Battle of Moclín – Troops of the Emirate of Granada defeat those of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of León.source
  • 1287Battle of the Counts: An Aragonese-Sicilian fleet (some 50 galleys) under Admiral Roger of Lauria defeat a larger Angevin fleet of 70 galleys near Naples. After a feigned retreat, Roger attacks the Angevin galleys from all sides. During the battle, which last much of the day, the Angevin fleet is scattered, leaving about 40 galleys to be captured, along with 5,000 prisoners. After the victory, without any authorization from King James II, Roger makes a truce with the Neapolitans (who are allies of the Angevins).source
  • 1303Athanasius I returns to leadership of the Eastern Orthodox church in Byzantium, receiving recognition as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople almost 10 years of having been driven from that office.source
  • 1305The Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge is signed between King Philip IV of France and Robert III of Flanders. The treaty was signed at Athis-sur-Orge and concluded the Franco-Flemish War, as it recognised Flemish independence as a fief, but at the cost of the cities of Lille, Douai and Béthune, which were transferred to the French crown-lands, and the paying of exorbitant fines to Philip IV.source
  • 1306The Knights Hospitaller, led by Grand Master Foulques de Villaret, land with 600 men on the island of Rhodes, one of the Dodecanese Islands off of the coast of Byzantium, and begin a four-year long war to capture the fortified city of Rhodes (which will not fall until August 15, 1310).source
  • 1310General Malik Kafur arrives at Delhi and presents to Sultan Alauddin the treasures captured from Warrangal.source
  • 1314Battle of Bannockburn begins: English forces approach the Scottish positions at Torwood, mounted troops under Gilbert de Clare are confronted by Scottish forces and repulsed. During the fierce fighting, Henry de Bohun is killed in a duel by King Robert the Bruce. Edward II and forward elements, mainly cavalry, encamp at Bannockburn near Stirling in central Scotland. The baggage train and the majority of the forces arrive in the evening.source
  • 1321Pope John XXII approves a second inquiry into the matter of the canonization of Thomas Aquinas, with four commissioners to take testimony of witnesses.source
  • 1414Yeshaq I, succeeds his brother Tewodros I as Emperor of Ethiopiasource
  • 1457Christian I is elected king of Sweden, ending the war between Sweden and Denmark and restoring the Kalmar Union.source
  • 1464King Christian of Sweden who is also King of Denmark and of Norway in the union of the three kingdoms, is declared deposed from the latter throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden is re-elected to the throne on August 9.source
  • 1501Nicolau Coelho, part of Pedro Cabral's Portuguese expedition to India, returns home with one ship, having left ahead of Cabral.source
  • 1503Representatives of King Henry VII of England and Queen Isabella of Spain sign a treaty for 12-year-old Henry, Prince of Wales to be married to Catherine of Aragon, widow of King Henry's son Arthur.source
  • 1523The Spanish expedition into Nicaragua ends as the Europeans arrive back in Panama in canoes, having been forced to abandon their ships.source
  • 1525June 23–24 – German Peasants' War: Battle of Pfeddersheim – Peasants are defeated in the last significant action of the war, in which over 75,000 peasants have been killed.source
  • 1534Copenhagen opens its gates to Count Christopher of Oldenburg, leading the army of Lübeck (and the Hanseatic League), nominally in the interests of the deposed King Christian II of Denmark. The surrenders of Copenhagen and, a few days later, of Malmö represent the high point of the Count's War for the forces of the League. These victories presumably lead the Danish nobility to recognize Christian III as King on July 4.source
  • 1537The Siege of Hamar ends with the arrest of Bishop Mogens Lauritssøn, and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway.source
  • 1547Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, leaders of the Schmalkaldic League who were both captured at the battle of Muhlberg, are transported to south Germany and imprisoned for their revolt against the Empire.source
  • 1558France is successful in the siege of Thionville in the Duchy of Luxembourg and recovers the fortress from the Spanish Empire after an operation that began on April 17 and lasted more than two months.source
  • 1582Shimizu Muneharu surrenders Takamatsu Castle to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and, in return for the pledge that the castle's defenders will be spared, commits the ritual suicide of seppuku.source
  • 1590The Japanese samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends an army of 15,000 men, led by generals Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Kagekatsu, in an attack on the Hachiōji Castle in what is now Tokyo. The castle is lightly defended, by only 1,300 men, because the samurai Hōjō Ujiteru has most of his troops engaged in defending Hideyohsi's siege of Odawara. The castle is captured after one day, and later destroyed on orders of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.source
  • 1593in a skirmish at Skeanavart in County Roscommon as part of Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh)'s raid into Connacht, Edmund MacGauran (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh) is among those killed.source
  • 1594A cargo ship explosion kills over 700 people the day after three English Navy ships— the Mayflower, Sampson and Royal Exchange— set fire to the Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas off of the coast of Faial Island during the Anglo-Spanish War. The treasure inside, gathered from the East Indies, sinks in the north Atlantic Ocean. Only 13 people on the Cinco Chagas survive, and the cargo is lost.source
  • 1601Battle of Kokenhausen, in which Polish forces defeated the Swedish relief force and captured the besieging force, relieving the Polish garrison. The battle is known as one of the greatest victories of the Polish hussars, who defeated their numerically superior Swedish adversaries.source
  • 1601Juan de Oñate, the Spanish colonial administrator in what is now the U.S. state of New Mexico, departs from San Gabriel de Nuevo Mexico with 130 Spanish soldiers and 12 priests on an expedition to explore the interior of the area.source
  • 1606A treaty is signed in Vienna between the Archduchy of Austria and the semi-independent Principality of Transylvania. Archduke Rudolf agrees to recognize Stephen Bocskai as Prince of Transylvania in return for Bocksay's guarantee of constitutional and religious rights to the ethnic Hungarians within Transylvania's borders.source
  • 1642Siege of Limerick: the English Protestant garrison of King John's Castle (Limerick) is forced to surrender by the Confederate Ireland Munster army led by General Garret Barry.source
  • 1650Charles arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth) where he signs the Covenant.source
  • 1650Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth), the only one of the three kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.source
  • 1661The "Marriage Treaty" is signed between representatives of King Charles II of England and King João IV of Portugal, providing a military alliance between the two kingdoms and a marriage between Charles of the House of Stuart and João's daughter Catherine of the House of Braganza on May 21, 1662. The treaty also sets the transfer of Portuguese territory in India (at Bombay) and in North Africa (Tangier) to England as well as military aid from England to Portugal.source
  • 1661Charles II signs a marriage treaty with Portugal. He will marry Catherine of Braganza; as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England and grants free trade with Brazil and the East Indies.source
  • 1661Bombay is given to Charles II of England as the marriage portion of Catherine of Portugal.source
  • 1662Koxinga, who had founded the Kingdom of Tungning on the island of Taiwan a year earlier, names his successor while on his deathbed. He appoints his son, Zheng Jing, whom he had earlier ordered unsuccessfully to be executed, as the new King.source
  • 1667June 19–24 – The raid on the Medway in England is carried out when a fleet from the Dutch Republic under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter takes Sheerness fort, sails up the River Medway, raids Chatham Dockyard, and tows away the royal flagship The Royal Charles.source
  • 1676The County of Schackenborg is established by Otto Didrik Schack, 1st Count of Schackenborg from the manors of Schackenborg, Sødamgård, Solvig and Store Tønde.source
  • 1681The Church of the East, an Eastern Orthodox rite in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), already split between two patriarchs in the Eliya line and the Shimun line, is split along a third line by the Roman Catholic Church when Mar Yousip of the Archdiocese of Amid (now Diyarbakır in Turkey) is proclaimed by Pope Innocent XI as Joseph I, "Patriarch of the Chaldean nation deprived of its patriarch", creating the "Josephite line" of the Chaldean Catholic Church.source
  • 1683the Caldwell Baronetcy of Wellsborough in County Fermanagh, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of James Caldwell, High Sheriff of County Fermanagh.source
  • 1691Ahmed II (1691–1695) succeeds Suleiman II (1687–1691), as Ottoman Emperor.source
  • 1713French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia.source
  • 1724The Treaty of Constantinople is signed, partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.source
  • 1724The Hølonda Church burns down.source
  • 1725The Malt tax riots begin in Scotland in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, after the price of beer and scotch whisky increases. Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on malted grain to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scottish counties.source
  • 1726professional Irish swordsman Andrew Bryan is defeated in a public duel in Edinburgh by 62-year-old Killiecrankie veteran Donald Bane "to the great joy of the Edinburgh citizenry".source
  • 1727Spain ceases hostilities after its attempt to recapture Gibraltar from Britain fails. A truce is signed the next day.source
  • 1743Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, the candidate of Empress Elizabeth I of Russia, is elected heir to the Swedish throne.source
  • 1755Most of the French troops dispatched to Canada arrive at Quebec, along with the new Governor General of New France, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial.source
  • 1757Battle of Plassey: 3,000 troops serving with the British East India Company under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah with the help of Mir Jafar, at Plassey in India, marking the first victory of the East India Company over India, which lasts until 1857.source
  • 1758Seven Years' War – Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French.source
  • 1760Russian forces overpowered a Prussian force in what is now Kamienna Góra, Poland, as part of the Seven Years' War.source
  • 1772June 23–28 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): First of two Russian occupations of Beirut, following a naval bombardment which began on June 18.source
  • 1780American Revolutionary War – Battle of Springfield: The Continental Army defeats the British in New Jersey.source
  • 1780American Revolutionary War – Battle of Springfield: The American victory at Springfield effectively ends British ambitions in New Jersey.source
  • 1789Louis XVI of France makes a conciliatory speech urging reforms to a joint session, and orders the three estates to meet together.source
  • 1790The alleged London Monster is arrested in London; he later receives 40 years for 10 assaults.source
  • 1790alleged London Monster arrested in London: he later receives two years for three assaults.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
  • 1796Napoleon Bonaparte seizes the Papal States, which become part of the revolutionary Cisalpine Republic. Pope Pius VI signs the Armistice of Bologna, and is forced to contribute (34 million francs).source
  • 1810John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.source
  • 1823Peruvian president José de la Riva Agüero is impeached by Congress. He rebels and establishes a short-lived rival government in Trujillo.source
  • 1823Phillip Tapsell is married for the first time, to Maria Ringa of Ngā Puhi, by Thomas Kendall. The bride runs away later the same day. This is probably the first Christian wedding in New Zealand (as later claimed by Tapsell himself).source
  • 1828King Miguel I of Portugal overthrows his niece, Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.source
  • 1834HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).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
  • 1848Government House, in Auckland is burned to the ground by a fire believed to have started in the butler's pantry. Most chattels and Government documents were saved.source
  • 1853Herman Garmann (born 1787), businessman and merchant.source
  • 1858Police of the Papal States seize Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara, and take him away to be raised as a Catholic.source
  • 1864Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.source
  • 1865American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, surrenders the last significant Rebel army.source
  • 1870The first message by electric telegraph using the Great Britain to India submarine cable is sent from London.source
  • 1882Kiel Week in Kiel started.source
  • 1885Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1887The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.source
  • 1890President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic institutes a Second Volksraad which is responsible for controlling local matters.source
  • 1891establishment of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saltillo, Roman Catholic Diocese of Tehuantepec and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepicsource
  • 1891An earthquake strikes Port Waikato.source
  • 1894a firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, kills 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground.source
  • 1894A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).source
  • 1894The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.source
  • 1896Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian federal elections for the 8th Canadian Parliament, to become the first Francophone Prime Minister of Canada.source
  • 1908Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar exploited divisions with the ranks of the reformers to eliminate the Majlis. Vladimir Liakhov, a Russian Cossack Brigade commander, shelled Majlis and executed several leaders of Constitutional Movement.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
  • 1911Frank C. Mars starts the Mars Candy Factory in Tacoma, Washington, origin of Mars, Incorporated, the global confectionery and pet food brand.source
  • 1914After it had been closed so that it could be deepened, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir George Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.source
  • 1915June 23 – July 7 – The First Battle of the Isonzo between the Armies of Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front in World War I. The aim of the Italian Army, under the command of Luigi Cadorna, was to drive the Austrians away from its defensive positions along the Soča (Isonzo) and on the nearby mountains.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
  • 1923The Societatea Națională de Credit Industrial is founded by the National Bank of Romania to provide credit and financial services to the industry.source
  • 1931June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.source
  • 1938Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.source
  • 1939Talks are completed in Ankara between French Ambassador René Massigli and Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu, resolving the Hatay dispute in Turkey's favor. Turkey annexes Hatay.source
  • 1941Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedoed by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths.source
  • 1943June 20–23 – The Detroit race riot of 1943 in the United States kills 34 people (25 African Americans, 9 whites), wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys property worth millions.source
  • 1943The forces of EAM-ELAS attack the EKKA's 5/42 Regiment and forcibly dissolve it.source
  • 1945the last serviceable Breda Ba.28 aircraft (Italian) crash-lands in Kabul and is written off as a complete loss, leaving the Afghan aircraft with 12 serviceable Hawker Hind aircraft (British), 6 Romeo aircraft (Italian) and one Stearman aircraft (American) by 31 October.source
  • 19461946 French India municipal election: The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory.source
  • 1946The 7.5 Mw Vancouver Island earthquake affects the island, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Two people are killed.source
  • 1946The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake affects Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia.source
  • 1947The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives, in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.source
  • 1954The Republic of China Navy captures the tanker Tuapse from the Soviet Union.source
  • 1954The Trust Bank of South Africa is founded by Jan S. Marais.source
  • 1956Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes the 2nd president of Egypt, a post he holds until his death in 1970.source
  • 1959Seán Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland.source
  • 1959Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.source
  • 1960Japanese prime minister Nobusuke Kishi announces his resignation.source
  • 1967Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.source
  • 1967The government bans the broadcast on Radio Pakistan of Tagore Songs, angering the country's Bengali population, who consider the songs part of their cultural identity.source
  • 1968June 23–30 – 1968 French legislative election: The Gaullist Union pour la défense de la République becomes the first party in French political history to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly. George Pompidou leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest of May 68 subsides.source
  • 1968Puerta 12 tragedy: A football stampede in Buenos Aires leaves 74 dead and 150 injured.source
  • 1972Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the investigation by the F.B.I. into the Watergate break-ins.source
  • 1972The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber, announces a decision for the pound sterling to move to a floating exchange rate. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent. Foreign exchange controls are applied to most members of the sterling area.source
  • 1972June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1977Venezuela ratifies the American Convention on Human Rights.source
  • 1979New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway in Sydney. It operates as a shuttle between Central and Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.source
  • 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
  • 1980Tim Berners-Lee begins work on ENQUIRE, the system that will eventually lead to the creation of the World Wide Web in autumn 1990.source
  • 1980September 6 – The 1980 United States heat wave claims 1,700 lives.source
  • 1985Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.source
  • 1986Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software.source
  • 1987The Tanduay Rhum Makers win the 1987 PBA Open Conference finals against the Great Taste Coffee Makers, 134-120source
  • 1988NASA scientist James Hansen testifies to the U.S. Senate that human-made global warming has begun, becoming one of the first environmentalists to warn of the problem.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
  • 1990June 23 census: Population: 355,278source
  • 1991Sonic the Hedgehog is released by Sega for the Sega Genesis to compete with Nintendo's Mario franchise.source
  • 1992The Israeli legislative election is won by the Israeli Labor Party under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin, ousting a Likud government.source
  • 1994NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.source
  • 1995The Pacific Ocean Games begins in Cali.source
  • 1995The National Parks Autonomous Agency is formed.source
  • 1998Bangabandhu Bridge, the longest multipurpose bridge in Bangladesh, is inaugurated by the prime minister.source
  • 2001An 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving at least 77 people dead, and 2,687 others injured.source
  • 2004The International Criminal Court opens an investigation into crimes against humanity during the Second Congo War.source
  • 2005Thousands of workers from UPM-Kymmene and Stora Enso, two leading Finnish companies in the paper industry go on strike over pay and working hours. Finland provides two thirds of the paper supply for the European magazine market. Industry analysts believe that the strike may have serious repercussions on the magazine market of Europe.source
  • 2007June 22–June 24 – Canadian professional wrestler Chris Benoit commits a double-murder suicide on his wife and youngest son at their home in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.source
  • 2010June 22–25 – A tennis match between Nicolas Mahut and John Isner at the Wimbledon Championships, becomes the longest tennis match in history.source
  • 2013A bus carrying 47 Romanian tourists to Tivat, Montenegro, crashes in the Morača canyon in central Montenegro, killing 19 people and injuring 27.source
  • 2015A cholera outbreak is declared after 171 people are infected while 18 people die from it.source
  • 2016The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, triggering the so-called Brexit.source
  • 2016a larger battle south of Wau initiated the 2016–17 Wau clashes.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 20212021 ICC World Test Championship Final: New Zealand wins the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship.source
  • 2022U.S. sportswear retailer Nike and networking firm Cisco announce that they are permanently ending their operations in Russia and Belarus.source
  • 2023Russo-Ukrainian war: The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.source
  • 2025Iran launches missiles at US bases in Qatar and Iraq in response to the previous day's strikes.source

Births

  • 47 BCECaesarion, prince of Egypt, later Ptolemy XV (died 30 BC)source
  • 1290Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese Rinzai master and poet (died 1367)source
  • 1385Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (died 1459)source
  • 1456Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, consort of James III of Scotland (died 1486)source
  • 1489Duke Charles II of Savoy, Italian sovereign (died 1496)source
  • 1530Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (died 1584)source
  • 1534Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)source
  • 1616Shah Shuja, second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (died 1661)source
  • 1625John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (died 1686)source
  • 1654Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, English politician (died 1717)source
  • 1668Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (died 1744)source
  • 1711Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian luthier (died 1786)source
  • 1743Catherine Shuvalova, Russian courtier. (died 1816)source
  • 1747Michele Troja, Italian physician (died 1827)source
  • 1763Joséphine de Beauharnais, born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, Martinique-born French empress consort (died 1814)source
  • 1894King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (afterwards The Duke of Windsor) (died 1972)source
  • 1912Alan Turing, British mathematician (died 1954)source
  • 1916Len Hutton, English cricketer (died 1990)source
  • 1964Joss Whedon, American screenwritersource
  • 1972Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and managersource
  • 1979LaDainian Tomlinson, American football playersource

Deaths

  • 79Emperor Vespasian dies of fever from diarrhea; his last words on his deathbed are: "I think I'm turning into a god." Titus succeeds his father as Roman emperor. Titus' Jewish mistress, Berenice, comes to join him in Rome, but he exiles her to please the Senate.source
  • 679Æthelthryth, queen of Northumbriasource
  • 947Wang, imperial consort of Later Tangsource
  • 947Li Congyi, prince of Later Tang (born 931)source
  • 960Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (born 903)source
  • 994Lothair Udo I, German nobleman (born 950)source
  • 1018Henry I ("the Strong"), margrave of Austriasource
  • 1137Adalbert I, archbishop of Mainzsource
  • 1222Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary (born 1179)source
  • 1262Siemowit I of Masovia, Polish nobleman and knight (House of Piast)source
  • 1290Henryk IV Probus ("the Righteous"), High Duke of Poland (born 1258)source
  • 1317Thawun Gyi, Burmese founder and ruler of Toungoo (born 1258)source
  • 1317Thawun Gyi, Burmese monarch of the principality of Toungoo, is assassinated by his younger brother, Thawun Nge, who takes his place.source
  • 1324Aymer de Valence, English nobleman and knightsource
  • 1324Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (c. 1270)source
  • 1325Chungseon of Goryeo (Wang Jang), Korean prince (born 1275)source
  • 1343Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Italian cardinal (born c. 1270)source
  • 1356Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (born 1311)source
  • 1414Tewodros I, Emperor of Ethiopiasource
  • 1500Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (born 1447)source
  • 1514Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1463)source
  • 1537Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)source
  • 1565Turgut Reis, Ottoman naval commander (born 1485)source
  • 1587Ōmura Sumitada, Japanese Christian daimyō (born 1533)source
  • 1611Christian II, Elector of Saxony (born 1583)source
  • 1659Hyojong of Joseon, 17th king of the Joseon dynasty of Korea (1649-1659) (born 1619)source
  • 1662Koxinga, Chinese military leader (born 1624)source
  • 1662Koxinga dies in Anping, Taiwan of Malaria, his son Zheng Jing takes over the Zheng regime, later leading the remaining 7,000 Ming loyalist troops to Taiwansource
  • 1686William Coventry, English statesman (born c.1628)source
  • 1733Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672)source
  • 1779Ras Mikael Sehul, Enderase of Ethiopia (born 1692)source
  • 1795James Craig, Scottish architect (born 1739)source
  • 1821Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans, heiress, wife of Philippe Égalité (born 1753)source
  • 1846Björn Blöndal, politician.source
  • 1874Cosme García Sáez, Spanish inventor (born 1818)source
  • 1906Juan Manuel Sánchez, Duke of Almodóvar del Río.source
  • 1953Albert Gleizes, French artist and theoretician (born 1881)source
  • 19851985 Narita International Airport bombing; two people were killed.source
  • 1990In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord of 1987 dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.source
  • 1996Andreas Papandreou, 77, Greek politician, cardiovascular disease.source
  • 1996Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)source