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June 26 in history

215 sourced entries recorded on June 26, from 285 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 285 BCEEgypt's Ptolemy I Soter abdicates. He is succeeded by his youngest son by his wife Berenice, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who has been co-regent for three years.source
  • 116 BCEAt the death of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Cleopatra III has chosen her younger son Ptolemy X Alexander as co-regent, but the Alexandrians force her to bring Ptolemy IX from Cyprus, of which he is governor.source
  • 221Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir, and receives the title of Caesar.source
  • 684Pope Benedict II succeeds Leo II as the 81st pope of Rome, after a period of sede vacante ("vacant seat") of 1 year.source
  • 699En no Ozunu, Japanese ascetic, is banished to Izu Ōshima (a volcanic island in the Izu Islands), and accused of confusing the mind of the people with magic. He will be later regarded as the founder of a folk religion called Shugendō.source
  • 732Venus occults Jupiter.source
  • 1096The People's Crusade (some 30,000 men) led by Peter the Hermit crosses the Sava (stealing boats from the local fishermen) but are attacked by Pechenegs and Hungarian forces. The citizens of Belgrade flee and the crusaders pillage and burn the city. Peter travels for seven days, and arrives at Niš.source
  • 1187Saladin regroups his Muslim forces and marches towards the Jordan River. His army numbers around 30,000 men and is divided into three columns. The following day Saladin encamps on the Golan Heights, in a marshy area near Lake Tiberias. Raiding parties are sent across the Jordan to ravage Christian territory between Nazareth, Tiberias, and Mount Tabor.source
  • 1243Battle of Köse Dağ: The Mongols under Baiju Noyan defeat the Seljuk Turks of the Sultanate of Rum and their Byzantine allies. The Seljuks and the Empire of Trebizond become vassals of the Mongols.source
  • 1282King Denis of Portugal ("the Poet King") marries the 11-year-old Elizabeth of Aragon, daughter of Peter III, in Trancoso. Elizabeth receives the towns of Óbidos, Abrantes and Porto de Mós as part of her dowry. Denis, known for his poetry, writes several poems and books, with topics of administration and hunting. During his reign, Lisbon becomes one of Europe's centers of art and culture.source
  • 1295Przemysł II is crowned king of Poland at Gniezno, the first coronation of a Polish ruler in 219 years. Przemysł travels to Pomerelia where he confirms the privileges of the monasteries in Oliwa and Żarnowiec. He also visits other major cities: Gdańsk, Tczew and Świecie. In August, Przemysł returns to Greater Poland but in October he travels again to Gdańsk.source
  • 1300English invasion of Scotland (1300): The largest part of the English Army marches from Carlisle to renezvous with King Edward I at Caerlaverock Castle.source
  • 1322Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, widow of the Contrariant leader Thomas of Lancaster, surrenders almost all of her properties to King Edward II of England in order to avoid execution.source
  • 1345Earl of Desmond attacks Nenagh.source
  • 1375Shortly after an earthquake in Japan, the Southern Court, ruled by Emperor Chōkei, changes the name of the Bunchū era, and the Tenju era begins.source
  • 1386Heidelberg University is opened by Ruprecht I, Count Palatine of the Rhine seven months after he received permission from Pope Urban V to create a school studium generale. Formal establishment will take place on October 19.source
  • 1402Battle of Casalecchio: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna and Florence. He dies from a fever less than three months later.source
  • 1409By order of the Council of Pisa, Pietro Filargo is crowned as Pope Alexander V, producing the anomaly of three different popes of the Roman Catholic church.source
  • 1419Ōei Invasion: A Japanese counterattack begins with 3,700 Korean invaders killed over the next six days.source
  • 1446Gilles de Bretagne, the brother of Francois I, Duke of Brittany, is arrested after allowing agents of King Charles VII of France to enter his home, Château du Guildo. He is eventually murdered while in custody at La Harduinaie.source
  • 1460Wars of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March (eldest son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York) land in England at Sandwich, Kent with an army, and march on London.source
  • 1471Edward of York, the 7-month-old son of King Edward IV of England, is created Prince of Wales, two months after his father has regained the throne.source
  • 1478The Battle of Kokovo takes place when 600 peasants and miners in the Duchy of Carinthia, led by King Matjaž, attempt to defend their territory against a force of 20,000 Ottoman Turkish invaders.source
  • 1497The coronation of Federico di Trastamara, son of King Alfonso II, as King of Naples takes place at Barletta Cathedral.source
  • 1536Spanish navigator Andrés de Urdaneta and a few companions arrive in Lisbon from the Maluku Islands, completing a westward circumnavigation which began with the Loaísa expedition of 1525.source
  • 1539Battle of Chausa in modern-day Buxar, India: Sher Shah Suri defeats the Mughal emperor, Humayun (Sher Shah goes on to form the Sur Empire, and take control of nearly all Mughal territory).source
  • 1547King Henri of France orders the division of France's easternmost provinces and divides them into three zones of control, each administered by a Marshal of the Army.source
  • 1553Two new schools, Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley, are created by royal charter in accordance with the will of King Edward VI of England; St Thomas' Hospital, London, in existence since the 12th century, is named in the same charter.source
  • 1591The siege of the Spanish Netherlands city of Delfzijl is started by Maurice, Prince of Orange, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who leads a Dutch and English Army against the Spanish defenders. Delfzijl falls after six days, and is surrendered on July 2.source
  • 1608Matthias I, already King of Bohemia becomes the King of Hungary and the King of Croatia upon the abdication of both jobs by his older brother, Rudolf II, who continues as Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1611The Swedish Storming of Kristianopel.source
  • 1612The coronation of Matthias as Holy Roman Emperor takes place at the Frankfurt Cathedral.source
  • 1657Andreas Creusen installed as Archbishop of Mechelensource
  • 1657Parliament reinforces the "Oath of Abjuration": anyone refusing to swear an oath to renounce the Pope's supremacy is to be "adjudged a Papist" and suffer confiscation of two-thirds of their property.source
  • 1657Cromwell is installed as Lord Protector for the second time at a ceremony at Westminster.source
  • 1658June 25–27 – In the Battle of Rio Nuevo, part of the Anglo-Spanish War, a Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.source
  • 1667Louis XIV of France conquers Tournai.source
  • 1667Louis XIV conquers Tournai.source
  • 1675The Wampanoag warriors begin a three-day assault on English colonial towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in North America, with an assault on the villages of Rehoboth and Taunton. At the same time, Massachusetts troops march to Swansea, to join the Plymouth Colony troops. The warriors elude colonial troops and leave Mount Hope for Pocasset, Massachusetts. The Mohegan tribe travels to Boston, in order to assist the English colonists against the Wampanoags.source
  • 1677June 25–26 – Scanian War: Siege of Malmö – Danish attackers fail to take the town from the Swedish.source
  • 1709The Battle of Fort Albany, an attack by 100 French colonial volunteers and Cree natives on the British Hudson's Bay Company outpost at Fort Albany on Hudson Bay. John Fullartine, commander of the post, leads a successful defense of the fort and 18 of the attackers are killed and then retreat. The site becomes part of a Cree First Nation reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario.source
  • 1714Spain and the Netherlands sign a peace treaty to end hostilities between those two nations in the War of the Spanish Succession.source
  • 1721Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of the Harvard University School of Medicine begins the first public inoculation campaign in order to slow the smallpox epidemic in Boston, giving a vaccine to his own son, and then to his slave and the slave's infant son.source
  • 1723Russo-Persian War: Baku surrenders to the Russians.source
  • 1740War of Jenkins' Ear: Siege of Fort Mose – A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free Black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.source
  • 1740War of Jenkins' Ear: Siege of Fort Mose – A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.source
  • 1759After their fleet finishes navigation of the St. Lawrence and arriving at the Île d'Orléans, British troops go ashore on France's North American territory and begin the siege of Quebec City.source
  • 1763stagecoach service between Glasgow and Greenock initiated.source
  • 1766The new Sumptuary law bans the import of numerous luxury items such as coffee, chocolate and many brands of vine.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
  • 1788Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his antepenultimate symphony, the Symphony No. 39 in E-flat.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
  • 1794Battle of Fleurus: French forces defeat the Austrians and their allies, leading to permanent loss of the Austrian Netherlands and destruction of the Dutch Republic. French use of an observation balloon marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle.source
  • 1794Battle of Fleurus: decisive French victory in the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.source
  • 1797HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor John Hunter and 26 merino sheep purchased by Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent. Wool pioneer John Macarthur would then acquire his first Merino sheep from them.source
  • 1800Major Joseph Foveaux is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island.source
  • 1803John Macarthur writes the Statement of Improvement and Progression of Fine Woolled Sheep in New South Wales.source
  • 1803First public assembly of the South Wales Unitarian Association.source
  • 1809Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen deposes Count Frederich Trampe as governor of Iceland in the Revolution of 1809 and declares himself "Protector of Iceland".source
  • 1809Jørgen Jørgensen's Revolution: Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen arrived in Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark–Norway and pronounced himself its ruler. However, with the arrival of HMS Talbot two months later, Danish rule in Iceland was restored and Jørgensen was arrested.source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars: Wellington's advancing Allied Army takes Péronne, Somme, on its way to Paris.source
  • 1816First prisoners admitted to the National Penitentiary, Millbank Prison, in London.source
  • 1830William IV succeeds his brother George IV, as King of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1831At the Conference of London the five great powers (Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia) finalise the Treaty of the Eighteen Articles, an unsuccessful peace proposal for Belgium and the Netherlandssource
  • 1834The Coat of arms of Chile is adopted.source
  • 1841Chilean presidential election, 1841source
  • 1847The first passenger railway wholly within modern-day Denmark opens, from Copenhagen to Roskilde.source
  • 1852creation of the Federal Railroad Police.source
  • 1853Investigation of the riot proceeds, at Montreal.source
  • 1857At a ceremony in London, Queen Victoria awards the first 66 Victoria Crosses to British troops, for actions during the Crimean War.source
  • 1860Natal – Durban to Point, 2 mi.source
  • 1862American Civil War: Battle of Mechanicsville – Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the troops of General George B. McClellan in the first of the Seven Days Battles.source
  • 1865Jumbo, a young male African elephant, arrives at London Zoo and becomes a popular attraction.source
  • 1865Jumbo, a young male African elephant, arrives at London Zoo and becomes a popular attraction.source
  • 1869President Enomoto Takeaki of the Republic of Ezo surrenders, turning Ezo's main fortress of Goryōkaku over to Satsuma staff officer Kuroda Kiyotaka on June 27.source
  • 1870Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich's National Theatre.source
  • 1877The eruption of the volcano Cotopaxi in Ecuador causes severe mudflows that wipe out surrounding cities and valleys, killing 1,000.source
  • 1881War of the Pacific – Battle of Sangrar: Peruvian and Chilean forces battle to a draw.source
  • 1884The first Italian officially to fall ill of cholera on Italian soil is a migrant worker who arrived at Ventimiglia from Toulon.source
  • 1887the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, 33.3C (91.9F) at Kilkenny Castle.source
  • 1889Bangui is founded in the French Congo.source
  • 1892Battle of Serobeti between Italy and Mahdist Sudan.source
  • 1892José Rizal arrives in the Philippines from Europe via Hong Kong.source
  • 1899Joseph Chamberlain sets into motion the Second Boer War after receiving an appeal from the British Cape Colony in South Africa to help British subjects oppressed in the Transvaal Republic.source
  • 1902Edward VII institutes the Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients.source
  • 1904Legislative electionsource
  • 1906The first autombile racing Grand Prix is the 1906 French Grand Prix held at Le Mans.source
  • 1907Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.source
  • 1908Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, a future President of Finland, meets the 13th Dalai Lama in Shanxi, China, becoming only the third European to be granted an audience with him.source
  • 1912Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered posthumously by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.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
  • 1919British Foreign Office official St John Philby and T. E. Lawrence arrive in Cairo for discussions about Arab unrest in Egypt, having been flown by Canadian pilot Harry Yates in a Handley Page bomber which set off from England on June 21.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
  • 1922Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.source
  • 1925Natal – Eshowe to Extension, 74 ch.source
  • 1925The aircraft manufacturer Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) is founded in Brașov.source
  • 1925A strike of miners in Drumheller, Alberta ends in violent confrontations.source
  • 1928An academic committee to research on the adoptation of Latin alphabet to Turkish languagesource
  • 193026 June – 13 July – 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).source
  • 1930John B. King Explosionsource
  • 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
  • 1933Win 4–2 vs Granville at Granvillesource
  • 1935The balloon USSR-1 ascends to an altitude of 16,000 meters and is forced into descent by a release of hydrogen.source
  • 1936Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight.source
  • 1939Hatay Republic decided to merge to Turkeysource
  • 1940Soviet calendar: The Soviet Union reverts to a seven-day week for all purposes.source
  • 1948William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.source
  • 1948The Berlin Airlift begins.source
  • 1952The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.source
  • 1954The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.source
  • 1955The Freedom Charter of the anti-apartheid South African Congress Alliance is adopted, at a Congress of the People in Kliptown.source
  • 1959Elizabeth II (as monarch of Canada) and United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.source
  • 1960The State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland protectorate) receives its independence from the United Kingdom. Five days later, it unites as scheduled with the Trust Territory of Somalia (the former Italian Somaliland), to form the Somali Republic.source
  • 1962A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy in support of increased wages and a five-day working week.source
  • 1963David Ben-Gurion is replaced by Levi Eshkol as prime minister of Israel.source
  • 1963Levi Eshkol is elected Prime Minister of Israel. The 11th Government is approved that day and the members are sworn in.source
  • 1963John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.source
  • 1964Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain.source
  • 1965Rune Brynhildsen, businesspersonsource
  • 1966Ulster Volunteer Force engages in three sectarian murders.source
  • 1967Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).source
  • 1967The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1, and leads to over 180 arrests.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
  • 1968The Bonin Islands are returned to Japan after 23 years of occupation by the United States Navy.source
  • 1968The "March of the One Hundred Thousand" takes place in Rio de Janeiro as crowds demonstrate against the Brazilian military government.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1976The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.source
  • 1978A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in the Palace of Versailles.source
  • 19792,500 Libyan troops invade Chad, heading for Faya-Largeau. The Libyans are forced to retreat by the intervention of French airplanes.source
  • 1982Bangladesh adopts standards of weights and measures based on metric system.source
  • 1985The iconic U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.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
  • 1992Denmark beats Germany 2–0 in the final to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.source
  • 1993Cruise missile airstrikes on Iraq is ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton as retaliation for Iraq alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush.source
  • 1993June 26–28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.source
  • 1997Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.source
  • 1997Publication of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies.source
  • 1998United Nations Security Council resolution 1177 was adopted unanimously and condemned the outbreak of war between the country and Ethiopia and demanded an immediate ceasefire in their border dispute.source
  • 1998The Colombia national football team plays England during the group stage (G) of the 1998 FIFA World Cup in Lens, France. England beats Colombia 2 to 0, which knocks Colombia out of the running.source
  • 2000A first draft of the Human Genome Project is finished. It is announced at the White House by U.S. President Clinton with Francis Collins and Craig Venter jointly with the UK Prime Minister in London.source
  • 2009The Ruins of Loropéni were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Ruins were the second out of three total sites in Burkina Faso to be added to the list, and was the country's first cultural UNESCO site.source
  • 2011July 17 – The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup takes place in Germany, and is won by Japan.source
  • 2012Bhutan's four-century-old Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, a ridge-top monastery, catches fire and is destroyed; however no relics were destroyed since the monastery was undergoing a renovation.source
  • 2013Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in an Australian Labor Party leadership ballot and consequently becomes Prime Minister of Australia, three years after Gillard replaced Rudd.source
  • 2013United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 744) decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, overturning a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act and hence granting federal recognition to same-sex marriage in the United States.source
  • 2017The 2017 America's Cup yacht race, sailed in Bermuda, is won by New Zealand's Aotearoa.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2019A stampede in Antananarivo resulted in the death of 16 people.source
  • 2024Eswatini hosts the Sustainable Cooling Summit 2024 in Manzini, highlighting climate action, sustainable cooling, a partnership with Italy, and plans for a plastic bag ban.source

Births

  • 1399John, Count of Angoulême (died 1467)source
  • 1575Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (died 1612)source
  • 1580Peter Claver, Spanish Jesuit priest (died 1654)source
  • 1600Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, English Royalist leader (baptised; d. 1658)source
  • 1600Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Spanish politician, clergyman (died 1659)source
  • 1653André-Hercule de Fleury, Catholic Cardinal and chief minister of France under Louis XV (died 1743)source
  • 1681Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (died 1708)source
  • 1699Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon holder (died 1777)source
  • 1699Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, salonnière (died 1777)source
  • 1702Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (died 1751)source
  • 1703Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (died 1767)source
  • 1741John Langdon, American politician (died 1819)source
  • 1760Johann I Joseph Prince of Liechtenstein (died 1836)source
  • 1798Josiah Warren, American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, author (died 1874)source
  • 1821Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure, and author, 6th President of Argentina (died 1906)source
  • 1824William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist, engineer (died 1907)source
  • 1827Amédée Courbet, French admiral (died 1885)source
  • 1854Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada, leader in World War I (died 1937)source
  • 1908Salvador Allende, President of Chile (died 1973)source
  • 1936Lee Ming-liang, Minister of Department of Health (2000–2002)source
  • 1961Greg LeMond, American cyclistsource
  • 1968Paolo Maldini, Italian football playersource
  • 1970Paweł Nastula, judoka and mixed martial artistsource
  • 1974Derek Jeter, American baseball playersource

Deaths

  • 116 BCEPtolemy VIII Physcon, king (pharaoh) of Egypt (born c. 182 BC)source
  • 363Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor (born 331)source
  • 363Battle of Samarra: Julian is mortally wounded in a skirmish and dies from a wound received during the fighting near Samarra (Iraq). Jovian, general of the Guard, succeeds him and is proclaimed Emperor by the troops.source
  • 405Saint Vigilius, bishop of Trent (born 353)source
  • 422Wu Di, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (born 363)source
  • 822Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (born 767)source
  • 969George El Mozahem, Egyptian martyr (born 940)source
  • 985Ramiro III, king of León (Spain) (born 961)source
  • 1043Gonzalo Sánchez, Spanish nobleman (born 1020)source
  • 1057Otto, margrave of the Nordmarksource
  • 1090Jaromír, Bohemian prince and bishopsource
  • 1095Robert the Lotharingian, bishop of Herefordsource
  • 1189Folmar of Karden, German archbishop (born 1135)source
  • 1243Dardin Shervashidze, Georgian noblemansource
  • 1265Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (born 1203 or 1204)source
  • 1274Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (born 1201)source
  • 1288Siegfried IV, German nobleman and prince-bishopsource
  • 1402Giovanni I Bentivoglio, Ruler of Bologna (born 1358)source
  • 1430Louis I, Duke of Bar, bishop (born 1370)source
  • 1487John Argyropoulos, Greek philosophersource
  • 1541Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (born c. 1475)source
  • 1541At Lima, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru and Governor of Nueva Castilla since 1529, is assassinated by 20 heavily-armed supporters of Diego de Almagro II in retaliation for the 1538 execution of Diego de Almagro.source
  • 1549Luis Cáncer, Spanish Dominican priest, missionary, martyr and servant of God (born 1500)source
  • 1574Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530)source
  • 1621Christence Kruckow, noblewoman and accused witch (born c. 1558)source
  • 1655Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (born 1589)source
  • 1677Francesco Buonamici, Italian architect, painter and engraver (born 1596)source
  • 1688Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)source
  • 1688John Claypole, English politician (born 1625)source
  • 1718Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (born 1690)source
  • 1755Iyasu II, Emperor of Ethiopia (born c. 1723)source
  • 1784Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1728)source
  • 1796David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official (born 1732)source
  • 1830King George IV of the United Kingdom (born 1762)source
  • 1856Max Stirner, German philosopher (born 1806)source
  • 1874June 25–27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro – Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino/Liberal (supporters of Queen Isabella II) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.source
  • 1947R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1870)source
  • 1975Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (born 1902)source
  • 2003Strom Thurmond, 100, American politician, Governor of South Carolina, and the only centenarian to serve in the U.S. Congress, heart failure.source
  • 2010Algirdas Brazauskas, the first president of a newly independent post-Soviet Union Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and prime minister from 2001 to 2006.source
  • 2021Mike Gravel, 91, American politician, senator (1969–1981), member (1963–1967) and speaker (1965–1967) of the Alaska House of Representatives, myeloma.source