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June 24 in history

271 sourced entries recorded on June 24, from 79 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 109The Aqua Traiana is inaugurated by Emperor Trajan; the aqueduct channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 km northwest of Rome.source
  • 474Julius Nepos arrives at Portus, and marches on Ravenna. He forces Glycerius to abdicate the throne, and proclaims himself emperor of the Western Roman Empire.source
  • 637Battle of Mag Rath: King Oswald of Northumbria sends troops to Ireland, to assist Domnall Brecc King of Dál Riata in his alliance with King Congal Cáech of Ulaid against Domnall mac Áedo High King of Ireland, during the Irish dynastic wars. Domnall Brecc, Congal and their forces are defeated near Moira. At the Mull of Kintyre (southwest Scotland), Domnall mac Áedo's fleet destroys Domnall Brecc's naval force of Dál Riata.source
  • 972Battle of Cedynia: The Polans under prince (or Duke) Mieszko I, defeat the German forces of the Saxon count Odo I at their stronghold in Cedynia (with the help of hidden reinforcements). The battle – one of the first in Polish history – strengthens Mieszko's hold over Western Pomerania.source
  • 1089Reconquista: Viscount Gaston IV of Béarn (supported by French crusaders) reconquers the Aragonese city of Monzón from Emir Al-Mustain II of the Taifa of Zaragoza.source
  • 1128Battle of São Mamede: Count Alfonso I (Henriques) defeats the forces led by his mother, Queen Theresa of Portugal, near Guimarães, and gains control of the county. Alfonso styles himself "Prince of Portugal".source
  • 1148Council of Acre: Conrad III, Louis VII, Melisende and many other nobles join in a war council near Acre. They decide that Damascus rather than Edessa will be the primary target of the Second Crusade.source
  • 1179Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, is put under the ban of the empire when he refuses to appear before Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) to answer charges of misgovernment.source
  • 1218Siege of Damietta: The Crusader army assaults the fortified city of Damietta, but they repeatedly fail. As a result, the Crusaders create a new type of naval siege weaponry, attributed by the German chronicler Oliver of Paderborn: two ships are bound together, with a siege tower and ladder constructed on top.source
  • 1285Battle of Chương Dương: Joint forces of Champa and Đại Việt defeat the Mongol-led Yuan fleet on the Red River. Most of the Yuan warships are burned during the battle, and the Mongol army retreats to China in late June. The Vietnamese royal court returns to the capital in Thang Long following a six-month conflict.source
  • 1292Castilian forces led by King Sancho IV ("the Brave") begin the siege of Tarifa: eleven newly built engines bombard the city constantly by land and sea. Meanwhile, Muhammad II, Nasrid ruler of Granada, provides the army of Sancho with men, arms and also aids the blockade in the Strait of Gibraltar. Muhammad attacks Marinid outposts and his forces seize Estepona on the coast to the west of Málaga. Sancho conquers Tarifa after a siege of four months, on October 13.source
  • 1300English invasion of Scotland (1300): On Midsummer Day, after crossing the border from England into Scotland, England's King Edward I holds a conference at English-occupied Scottish territory at Roxburgh with his advance force. King Edward starts another Scottish campaign and marches north with his army, accompanied by several knights of Brittany and Lorraine. The 16-year-old Prince Edward of Caernarfon is appointed to take command of the rearguard of the English army but part from a small skirmish, he sees no action.source
  • 1313From the English garrison at Stirling Castle in Scottish territory, Sir Philip Mowbray proposes a truce with Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, after a siege of "many months". Edward Bruce agrees to what Scottish historian Patrick Fraser Tytler will describe five centuries later as "a truce involving conditions which ought on no account to have been accepted." As Tytler notes, the effect "was to check the ardour of the Scots in that career of success, which was now rapidly leading to the complete deliverance of their country; it gave the King of England a whole year to assemble the strength of his dominions... We need not wonder, then, that Bruce was highly incensed, on hearing that, without consulting him, his brother had agreed to Mowbray's proposals."source
  • 1314Battle of Bannockburn (First War of Scottish Independence): Scottish forces (some 8,000 men) led by Robert the Bruce defeat the English army at Bannockburn, securing de facto independence for Scotland. During the battle, the Scottish pikemen formed in schiltrons (or phalanx) repulses the English cavalry (some 2,000 men). Edward II flees with his bodyguard (some 500 men), while panic spreads among the remaining forces, turning their defeat into a rout. Stirling Castle is surrendered to the Scots.source
  • 1314Battle of Bannockburn: English forces defeated by smaller army led by Robert the Brucesource
  • 1322In Italy, Galeazzo I Visconti becomes the new Lord of Milan upon the death of his father Matteo I Visconti.source
  • 1324King Charles IV of France issues an order declaring the Duchy of Aquitaine, French territory ruled by King Edward II of England, forfeited to the crown. The move comes after King Edward fails to render homage, as Duke of Aquitaine, to King Charles. A French army of 7,000 men is massed at the border of Aquitaine for an invasion.source
  • 1324Louis IV, King of the Romans, gives the Duchy of Pomerania (part of modern-day Germany and Poland) to his son, Louis, Margrave of Brandenburg, exacerbating the Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict.source
  • 1340Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The English fleet, under the command of Edward III of England, battles the French fleet, under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicolas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra, on the Low Countries coast. The French fleet is virtually destroyed, and both of its commanders are killed.source
  • 1340Valdemar IV of Denmark, son of deceased King Christopher II, is elected to the throne, following 8 years of interregnum.source
  • 1346The leaders of Ghent, Bruges and Ypres agree to support Edward III.source
  • 1371In punishment for his malfeasance as regent during the reign of King David II, the property of William III, Earl of Ross at Inverness is confiscated by King Robert II.source
  • 1374The illness dancing mania begins in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), possibly due to ergotism.source
  • 1377The Caroline War, which had been fought for six years from 1369 until the Treaty of Bruges on June 27, 1375, resumes between the kingdoms of England and France as the treaty expires. The war, a dispute over the control of Aquitaine, will last until 1389.source
  • 1380At the Battle of Chioggia, the navy of the Republic of Venice, with 48 galleys, defeats the invading fleet of the Republic of Genoa, clearing a blockade of the Venetian harbor, regaining control of the Adriatic Sea, and beginning the dominance of the Venetian Navy. Venice supplements its fleet with the capture of 17 of Genoa's ships.source
  • 1401(13th day of 5th month Ōei 8) The shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dispatches a mission to Ming Dynasty China as the first step of opening trade between the two nations.source
  • 1417The earliest extant description of Tynwald Day; the annual meeting of the Isle of Man's parliament (Tynwald) is written down in law. Its first recorded use for the promulgation of laws dates to 24 June 1417, when Sir John Stanley presided.source
  • 1433The 1431 truce of Staryi Chortoryisk, halting the Lithuanian Civil War, expires and fighting resumes with Poland allying itself with the Hussites against the Teutonic Order.source
  • 1434Iron mine owner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson begins the Engelbrekt rebellion in Sweden against King Erik, starting with an attack against the town of Borlänge, followed by Köpingehus, burning down offices there and then marching on towards Västerås.source
  • 1437On the feast day of St. John the Baptist, the plague in Ragusa is declared at an end.source
  • 1439Sigismund of Habsburg becomes the new Duke of Austria upon the death of his father, Frederick IV.source
  • 1442The Siege of Tartas ends in France after almost two years, when French forces come to the relief of Charles II of Albret and force the Gascony rebels and English troops to retreat.source
  • 1478After a rendezvous with other Castilian Navy ships, Captain Rejón and 1,300 men arrive at the Bay of Isletas on Gran Canaria island.source
  • 1497John Cabot lands in North America (near modern-day Bonavista, Newfoundland).source
  • 1501Cesare Borgia's French troops storm and overtake the fortress at Capua in the Kingdom of Naples, overcoming the defense of Fabrizio Colonna in the occupation of the Spanish Kingdom of Aragon in southern Italy.source
  • 1509King Henry VIII and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.source
  • 1512Captain-Major Simão de Miranda de Azevedo took office as the new Portuguese Governor of Mozambique after being replaced by King Manuel I to replace António de Saldanha.source
  • 1517Pier Gerlofs Donia, leader of a rebellion of the Frisians minority of the Netherlands, leads 4,000 of his Arumer Zwarte Hoop soldiers on an attack against the Dutch inhabitants of Medemblik, then moves on to a massacre of the residents of the village of Asperen.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
  • 1531The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico, is founded.source
  • 1535Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.source
  • 1536San Juan Bautista del Teul is founded by Cristóbal de Oñate in New Spain.source
  • 1544The plundering of the Italian island of Ischia, part of the Kingdom of Naples is carried out by the Ottoman Empire Navy, commanded by Hayreddin Barbarossa, who captures 4,000 of the residents and then sells them as slaves in Algeria.source
  • 1552The Portuguese ship São João is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa. While 480 people survive initially, all but 25 of them die during the next 165 days while trying to reach the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique.source
  • 1571On the island of Luzon in the Philippines, Miguel López de Legazpi of Spain establishes a Spanish fortress at Manila Bay and, after making a peace pact with the Crown Prince of Luzon, Rajah Sulayman declares Manila to be the administrative capital of the Spanish East Indies.source
  • 1573After Henry, Duke of Anjou learns that he has been elected the King of Poland, he agrees to negotiate an end to the Siege of La Rochelle, which has continued for almost nine months against the Huguenots in the western French city, and reaches an agreement with the Huguenot defender, the Count of Montgomery.source
  • 1575William the Silent, Prince of Orange, marries Charlotte of Bourbon.source
  • 1596Cornelis de Houtman arrives in Banten, the first Dutch sailor to reach Indonesia.source
  • 1610Henri Membertou, Grand Chief of Mi'kmaq nation, becomes the first North American aboriginal person to accept baptism into the Christian faith and signs the Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi'kmaq as an independent nation.source
  • 1621Huguenot rebellions: Saint-Jean-d'Angély is taken, after a 26-day siege by Royal forces.source
  • 1622Dutch–Portuguese War – Battle of Macau: The outnumbered Portuguese forces successfully defend Macau from the Dutch fleet, keeping a Portuguese foothold in the Far East.source
  • 1633The Compagnie normande (compagnie Rozée) obtains a 1-year monopoly of trade with Cape Verde, Senegal, The Gambia and (from 14 January 1634) Guinea.source
  • 1635Siege of Leuven commences.source
  • 1661The Coat of arms of Copenhagen is granted to the city by the king in appraisal of its citizens' efforts in repelling the Swedish siege and attack on the city the previous year. An accompanying royal letter of privilege also introduced various privileges which, however remained of relatively minor importance. The city is also granted the fief Roskilde (Bidstrup estate).* September – Corfitz Ulfeldt and Leonora Christina are released from their imprisonment at Hammershus on the island of Bornholm.source
  • 1664The Second Anglo-Dutch War carries over to North America as soldiers of the English Army invade the Dutch colony of New Netherland, promised by King Charles II of England to his brother, the Duke of York.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
  • 1675King Philip's War breaks out, as the Wampanoags attack Swansea.source
  • 1688French forces under Chevalier de Beauregard abandon their garrison at Mergui, following repeated Siamese attacks; this ultimately leads to their withdrawal from the country.source
  • 1690Riots between sailors and soldiers break out in Copenhagen on Saint John's Eve.source
  • 1694The Tunisian–Algerian War begins as Algerian troops cross into Tunisia.source
  • 1695The Commission of Enquiry into the Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland in 1692 reports to the Parliament of England, blaming Sir John Dalrymple, Secretary of State over Scotland, and declares that a soldier should refuse to obey a "command against the law of nature".source
  • 1695a commission of enquiry into the Massacre of Glencoe reports to Parliament, blaming Sir John Dalrymple, Secretary of State over Scotland, and declares that a soldier should refuse to obey a "command against the law of nature".source
  • 1698The Trade with Africa Act 1697 goes into effect in English overseas possessions, ending the monopoly of the Royal African Company (RAC) on the triangular trade by opening it to any English merchants who pay a 10 percent fee to the RAC.source
  • 1698abolition of the Royal African Company's monopoly is confirmed under terms of the Trade with Africa Act 1697, opening the slave trade to any merchant.source
  • 1700Responsibility for vagrants passes from churchwardens to parish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698).source
  • 1701The Act of Settlement 1701 is passed by the Parliament of England, to exclude the Catholic Stuarts from the British monarchy. Under its terms, King William III, childless, will be succeeded by Queen Mary II's sister Princess Anne and her descendants. If Anne should have no descendants, she will be succeeded by Sophia of Hanover and her descendants (hence the Hanoverian Succession in 1714).source
  • 1701the Act of Settlement 1701, by the Parliament of England, becomes law; the crown of Great Britain passes to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother-in-law, King William III.source
  • 1701the Act of Settlement 1701, passed by the Parliament of England, becomes law. Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants are next in line to the throne following Anne, the heir apparent to her brother-in-law King William III, ensuring that no Catholic will inherit the throne.source
  • 1710In the Isle of Man, Manx coins become legal tender.source
  • 1717Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (the later United Grand Lodge of England), is founded.source
  • 1717The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the Modern and first Free-Masonic Grand Lodge (which merges with the Ancient Grand Lodge of England in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London.source
  • 1721an act of the Parliament of Great Britain permits Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, to purchase the Irish estates forfeited by his brother James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.source
  • 1724Treaty of Constantinople was signed delimiting the spheres of influence of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the Transcaucasus.source
  • 1724On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach leads the first performance of his Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.source
  • 1725The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.source
  • 1725first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.source
  • 1736Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 5) in Great Britain comes into effect, criminalizing claimants accusing people of practising witchcraft or of possessing magical powers, intended to end legal witch trials in the early modern period in the country.source
  • 1736Witchcraft Act 1735 comes into effect, introducing penalties for pretending to practice or accusing others of practising witchcraft and repealing those against its supposed actual practice, intended to end legal witch trials in the early modern period in Britain.source
  • 1738British inventor Lewis Paul receives a patent for roller cotton-spinning machinery.source
  • 1738Lewis Paul and John Wyatt obtain a patent for roller cotton-spinning machinery.source
  • 1747October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.source
  • 1748on the death of his father William, John Adam inherits his architectural practice in Scotland and the position of Master Mason to the Board of Ordnance, immediately taking his brother Robert into partnership.source
  • 1749The first Masonic lodge is established in Norway (Lodge St. Olaus to the white Leopard).source
  • 1750Parliament passes Britain's Iron Act, designed to restrict American manufactured goods by prohibiting additional ironworking businesses from producing finished goods. At the same time, import taxes on raw iron from America are lifted in order to give British manufacturers additional material for production. By 1775, the North American colonies have surpassed England and Wales in iron production and have become the world's third largest producer of iron.source
  • 1750Iron Act, passed by Parliament, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies.source
  • 1755Thomas Whitty originates Axminster Carpets.source
  • 1762Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.source
  • 1762Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, the Anglo-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats the French forces in Westphalia. The British commander Lord Granby distinguishes himself.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
  • 1778A total solar eclipse takes place across parts of North America, from Texas to Virginia.source
  • 1778A total solar eclipse takes place across parts of the U.S. from Texas to Virginia.source
  • 1779American Revolutionary War: start of the Great Siege of Gibraltar (fourteenth and last military siege). This is an action by French and Spanish forces to wrest control of Gibraltar from the established British Garrison. The garrison, led by George Augustus Eliott, later 1st Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, survives all attacks and a blockade of supplies.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
  • 1794Bowdoin College is founded in Brunswick, Maine.source
  • 1795The United States Senate ratifies the Jay Treaty with Great Britain.source
  • 1803Lord Ellenborough's Act (the Malicious Stabbings or Shooting Act) includes a provision that makes abortion a crime for the first time, also introducing a crime of 'concealment of birth' which might be charged when infanticide cannot be proved.source
  • 1812Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River, and invades Russia.source
  • 1812The French invasion of Russia begins, as Napoleon crosses the Nieman river.source
  • 1821Battle of Carabobo: Simón Bolívar wins Venezuela's independence from Spain.source
  • 1830Last person to stand in the pillory in England, Peter Bosse, for perjury.source
  • 1838War of the Confederation: Battle of Montenegrosource
  • 1839Last meeting of the Committee of Trade, forerunner of the Board of Trade.source
  • 1848Anne Brontë published her final novel and her best-selling work, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.source
  • 1856Haldor Johan Hanson, Norwegian-American hymn writer, publisher and author. (died 1929)source
  • 1858The Sovereign and Illustrious Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Anglia declared.source
  • 1859Austro-Sardinian War – Battle of Solferino: The Kingdom of Sardinia and the armies of Napoleon III of France defeat Franz Joseph I of Austria in northern Italy; the battle inspires Henri Dunant to found the Red Cross.source
  • 1869Sea Birds Preservation Act 1869 passed, preventing killing of designated species during the breeding season, the first act to offer any protection to wild birds in the UK.source
  • 1895Battle of Campo Osóriosource
  • 1901The first showing of Picasso's paintings in Paris as the 19-year-old Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery.source
  • 1901English Association Football Club Brighton & Hove Albion is formed by John Jackson to replace the amateur Brighton and Hove Rangers, following a meeting at the Seven Stars Hotel on Ship Street, Brighton.source
  • 1904The North-West Mounted Police become the Royal Northwest Mounted Policesource
  • 1909The Everton de Viña del Mar football club is founded.source
  • 1913Joseph Cook becomes the 6th prime minister.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
  • 1916Mary Pickford becomes the first movie star to sign a million-dollar contract, making her one of the highest-paid people in the world.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
  • 1922Second West Hungarian Uprising, quickly suppressed by the government.source
  • 1922Athletic Park, Wellington: drawn 1–1source
  • 1926the liner Padua is launched. Other ships launched this year (all with date of launch unknown) include SS Amrum, SS Ilse L M Russ and SS Siegmund.source
  • 1928A Swedish aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12.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
  • 1932Siamese revolution of 1932, King Prajadhipok forced to accept demands by the Khana Ratsadon (or the People's party) to change the system of government from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.source
  • 1932After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy.source
  • 1934Daoud Hanania, Jordanian heart surgeon.source
  • 1934establishment of Centro Social y Recreativo Españolsource
  • 1937The Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board replaces the Book Censorship Advisory Committee, and temporarily lifts the ban on Ulysses by James Joyce.source
  • 1940WWII: Operation Fish – British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Emerald sails from Greenock (Scotland) in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia (arriving July 1), carrying a large part of the gold reserves of the United Kingdom and securities for safe keeping in Canada.source
  • 194024 June–1 July – World War II: Operation Fish – Royal Navy cruiser HMS Emerald sailed from Greenock in convoy to Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying a large part of the gold reserves of the United Kingdom and securities for safe keeping in Canada. Another convoy set sail on 5 July from the Clyde, including HMS Batory, carrying cargo worth $1.7 billion, the largest movement of wealth in history.source
  • 1940United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia, and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.source
  • 1941The Soviet Information Bureau, predecessor of RIA Novosti, is founded.source
  • 1945WWII: A victory parade is held in Red Square in Moscow.source
  • 1945Moscow Victory Paradesource
  • 1947Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. Over 800 copycat sightings are reported throughout the US in the coming following weeks.source
  • 1947Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. The Arnold sighting marks the start of the 1947 flying disc craze.source
  • 1948Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.source
  • 1948The Berlin Blockade begins; in response, the U.S. orders the launch of Operation Vittles, the U.S. action of the Berlin Airlift.source
  • 1948The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.source
  • 1949The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC in the United States.source
  • 1954June 24/26: Hurricane Alice (June 1954)source
  • 1957Moshe Weizmann (born 1878), Russian-born Professor of Chemistry at the Hebrew University, brother of first Israeli president, Haim Weizmann.source
  • 1958Lucas Lopes is appointed as the new Minister of Finance, who would implement the Monetary Stabilization Plan. This plan would aim to stabilize inflation, meet IMF requirements for the acquisition of a loan of 300 million, and to maintain the works of construction in Brasília.source
  • 1958According to official Japanese government confirmed report, a large scale eruption in Mount Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, killed a total of twelve persons, and wounded 28.source
  • 1960Joseph Kasa-Vubu is elected as the first President of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo.source
  • 1960Assassination attempt of Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt.source
  • 1961Raúl Silva Henríquez takes office as Archbishop of Santiago in the Archdiocese of Santiago.source
  • 1967Flooding kills six cavers in Mossdale Caverns in the United Kingdom, the single deadliest incident in British caving.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
  • 1968Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announcedsource
  • 1969The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic relations, after the Rhodesian constitutional referendum.source
  • 1969The proposed lowering of the electoral age from 21 to 18 is rejected by 78.6% of voters at the 1969 Danish electoral age referendum.source
  • 1969June 24 to July 11 - According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a torrential rain, following landslide hit in Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture, this natural disaster total death number of 89 person.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1973Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.source
  • 19772 October: documenta 6source
  • 1978The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark the 9th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival).source
  • 1979The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, is founded in Bologna at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.source
  • 1982British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane after flying through the otherwise undetected volcanic ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.source
  • 1985Guerillas ambush and kill 6 police officer in western Valle del Cauca, 9 others are injured along with 3 civilians.source
  • 1985STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.source
  • 1990Jordan re-opens diplomatic relations with Libya. Jordan had cut off relations in 1984 after a violent protest at the Jordanian embassy in Tripoli.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
  • 1990Kathleen Margaret Brown and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1993Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.source
  • 1993UK mathematician Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.source
  • 1995Ren Ci Hospital is officially opened.source
  • 1999Kosovo War: NATO marines shoot three gunmen in Kosovo, Yugoslavia after being attacked by the latter, killing one of them and injuring the other two.source
  • 2000Reminiscencias dance club shooting: Juan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez kills 11 people and injures seven at the Reminiscencias dance club in Bogotá after opening fire with a machine gun.source
  • 2006The orthodox Christian party SGP lifts its ban on female membership. The party had lost its government subsidy because a court in The Hague found the ban on female membership to be in violation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.source
  • 2007A roadside bomb hits a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrol, killing six Spanish-speaking peacekeepers (three of whom were Colombian) and injuring two others.source
  • 2007American rapper T.I was involved in a physical altercation with Chaka Zulu, the manager of Ludacris, at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, California.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
  • 2008Representing Pope Benedict XVI, Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos makes a reconciliation offer to the conservative Society of St. Pius X. Hoyos requested the Society respect the Pope's authority, and expected a positive response by the end of the month.source
  • 2010Julia Gillard is elected unopposed in a Labor Party leadership ballot and sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.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
  • 2017The Goodwin Fire, a wildfire, starts in Yavapai County, Arizona near Mayer and forces evacuations of more than a hundred people.source
  • 2018Early general elections was held in Turkey to elect the president of Turkey and all 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkey's unicameral legislature. Justice and Development Party candidate, incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is reelected and the Justice and Development Party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comes out as the largest party winning 295 out of 600 seats.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2018Saudi Arabia allows women to drive.source
  • 2021Surfside condominium collapse: A portion of the Champlain South Towers condominium building collapses in Surfside, Florida, United States, leaving 98 people dead. One survivor was pulled from the wreckage while 35 others were evacuated from the uncollapsed section of the building.source
  • 2021A rare tornado sweeps through several villages, killing six people and leaving more than 150 others injured.source
  • 2022Bulgaria lifts its veto against North Macedonia's bid to join the European Union.source
  • 2022The United States' Supreme Court rules in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that America's constitution does not confer a right to abortion. In response, mass protests against the decision form across the US as well as in France, the UK and Canada.source
  • 2024WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States. He returns to his native Australia two days later.source
  • 2025June 24–25 – A NATO summit is held at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands.source

Births

  • 1210Floris IV, Count of Holland, Dutch nobleman and knight (died 1234)source
  • 1244Henry I of Hesse, German nobleman (died 1308)source
  • 1254Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland (died 1296)source
  • 1292Otto the Mild, German nobleman and knight (died 1344)source
  • 1299John de Verdon, English nobleman and knight (died 1376)source
  • 1314Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of Edward III (died 1369)source
  • 1322Joanna of Brabant, Dutch noblewoman (died 1406)source
  • 1360Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general (died 1431)source
  • 1386Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456)source
  • 1391Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany (died 1433)source
  • 1419John of Sahagún, Spanish Augustinian friar, priest and saint (died 1479)source
  • 1465Isabella del Balzo, queen consort of Naples (died 1533)source
  • 1485Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (died 1558)source
  • 1485Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1502–1535) (died 1555)source
  • 1499Johannes Brenz, German theologian and Protestant Reformer of the Duchy of Württemberg (died 1570)source
  • 1519Theodore Beza, French theologian (died 1605)source
  • 1532William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German Protestant leader (died 1592)source
  • 1532Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (probable; d. 1588)source
  • 1535Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (died 1573)source
  • 1542John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic, theologian, poet (died 1591)source
  • 1546Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (died 1610)source
  • 1556Victoria of Valois, French princess (died 1556)source
  • 1556Joan of Valois, French princess (died 1556)source
  • 1575William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre, English peer and MP (died 1637)source
  • 1587William Arnold, American settler (died 1676)source
  • 1591Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1639)source
  • 1611Johan Oxenstierna, statesman (died 1657)source
  • 1614John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse of England (died 1689)source
  • 1630Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, English politician (died 1691)source
  • 1678Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, Count of Samsø, admiral and illegitimate son of Christian V (died 1719)source
  • 1687Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (died 1752)source
  • 1704Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (died 1771)source
  • 1726Robert Monckton, army officer and colonial administrator (died 1782)source
  • 1740Juan Ignacio Molina, Spanish-Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist and linguist (died 1829)source
  • 1767Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator (died 1846)source
  • 1813Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, reformer (died 1887)source
  • 1827Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (died 1897)source
  • 1842Ambrose Bierce, American writer, satirist (died ca. 1914)source
  • 1850Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal, statesman (died 1916)source
  • 1895Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983)source
  • 1902Juan Antonio Yanes, professional baseball pioneer (died 1987)source
  • 1911Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (died 1995)source
  • 1940Su Yu-chang, martial artist, scholar and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicinesource
  • 1962Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexicosource

Deaths

  • 79Vespasian, Roman emperor (born AD 9)source
  • 105Gnaeus Afranius Dexter, Roman politiciansource
  • 994Abu Isa al-Warraq, Arab scholar (born 889)source
  • 1046Jeongjong II, king of Goryeo (born 1018)source
  • 1088William de Warenne, Norman noblemansource
  • 1106Yan Vyshatich, Kievan noblemansource
  • 1124Nicholas of Worcester, prior of the Benedictine priory of Worcester Cathedralsource
  • 1143Ermesinde of Luxembourg, Countess of Namur, French noblewoman (born 1080)source
  • 1214Gilbert Glanvill (or Glanville), bishop of Rochestersource
  • 1229Walter III (or de Brisebarre), lord of Caesareasource
  • 1241Ivan Asen II of Bulgariasource
  • 1314Robert Clifford, English nobleman, knight and High Sheriff (born 1274) — Battle of Bannockburnsource
  • 1314Gilbert de Clare, English nobleman, knight and peerage (born 1291) — Battle of Bannockburnsource
  • 1314John Comyn IV of Badenoch (born c. 1294)source
  • 1322Matteo I Visconti, Italian nobleman and ruler (born 1250)source
  • 1346"Around the Feast of the Baptist, four hundred of the men of Uriel and Dundalk were killed by the Irish." [7].source
  • 1398Hongwu Emperor of China (born 1328)source
  • 1412Compromise of Caspe: By a vote of nine delegates (three each from the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdom of Valencia and the Principality of Catalonia), Ferdinand of Antequera is selected as the new King of Aragon and King of Sicily, after a two year succession crisis that arose from 1410 death of King Martin.source
  • 1439DFrederick IV, Duke of Austria (born 1382)source
  • 1445Annibale I Bentivoglio, the ruler of the semi-independent Lordship of Bologna since 1443, is assassinated by the rival Canneschi family, with the support of Pope Eugene IV.source
  • 1519Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)source
  • 1520Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489)source
  • 1522Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse, German noble (born 1483)source
  • 1556Joan of Valois, French princess (born 1556)source
  • 1556Joan of Valois, royal princess (stillborn)source
  • 1564Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (born 1524)source
  • 1564Rani Durgavati (born 1524).source
  • 1601Henriette of Cleves, Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel (born 1542)source
  • 1604Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, poet and possibly playwright (born 1550)source
  • 1637Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580)source
  • 1696Philip Henry, English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist (born 1631)source
  • 1712Hans Munch, theologian and priest, bishop of Christianssand and of Christiania (born 1654).source
  • 1798Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (born 1742), former governess general of the Austrian Netherlandssource
  • 1817Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (born 1734)source
  • 1817Thomas McKean, lawyer, President of the Continental Congress, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1734)source
  • 1835Tomás de Zumalacárreguisource
  • 1908Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)source
  • 1922Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.source
  • 1935Ten people, including musician Carlos Gardel, are killed in a collision between two Ford Trimotor airplanes at Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, Colombia.source
  • 1973UpStairs Lounge arson attack, an as-yet unsolved attack on a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, in which 32 patrons are killed.source
  • 2007Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NJPW), suicide by hanging.source
  • 2012Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, dies in Galápagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.source