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June 27 in history

208 sourced entries recorded on June 27, from 362 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1137A fire severely damages the city of Bath.source
  • 1299Pope Boniface VIII issues the papal bull "Scimus, Fili" condemning Edward I of England's invasion and occupation of Scotland.source
  • 1305In recognition of the marriage of his daughter to Öljaitü the Mongol Ikhanate, Mongol Irinjin is appointed Viceroy of Anatolia.source
  • 1318The reign of King Birger of Sweden ends as supporters of his late brothers, Valdemar and Eric, storm the Nyköping Castle. Birger and his wife flee to Stegeborg Castle, then flee again when the rebels capture the stronghold in August.source
  • 1352Zug joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.source
  • 1358The Republic of Ragusa is founded, after being freed from the Republic of Venice.source
  • 1369Thomas de Brantingham succeeds John Barnet as the Lord High Treasurer of England.source
  • 1375Hundred Years' War: The English, weakened by the plague, lose so much ground to the French that they agree to sign the Treaty of Bruges, leaving them with only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux and Bayonne.source
  • 1409Bohemia's King Wenceslaus pardons rebel leader Jan Zizka, and orders the city of Budejovice to do so as well.source
  • 1425Zhu Zhanji is formally enthroned as the Ming dynasty Emperor of China as the Emperor Xuanzong, beginning the Xuande Era.source
  • 1427John III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard, is released from imprisonment after swearing an oath of allegiance to John, Margrave of Brandenburg.source
  • 1441The siege of Novo Brdo in Serbia ends after eight months as Ottoman Empire troops, led by the Sultan Murad II and General Hadım Şehabeddin guarantee the safe evacuation of the surviving Ragusan defenders, accept the Serbian surrender.source
  • 1448Venice sends Andrea Venier to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to have the Ottomans invade Albania. Afterwards, Venier is sent to meet with Skanderbeg to ask him to cease hostilities.source
  • 1467(26th day of 5th month of Ōnin 1) In Japan, the Battle of Kamigyo begins in Kyoto as the "Eastern Army" of Takeda Nobutaka and Jōshin'in Mitsunobu (the aide to Hatakeyama Masanaga, who lost the Battle of Goryo) invade temples on both sides of the Ogawa River with 160,000 troops, and seize control of Kyoto in an attempt to capture its military governor, Isshiki Yoshinao.source
  • 1475After an 11-month siege, Charles the Bold abandons the Siege of Neuss when an imperial relief army from the Holy Roman Empire approaches; a papal legate of Pope Sixtus IV threatens excommunication of both Charles and Emperor Frederick III should the fighting continue, allowing both rulers to withdraw without loss of honor.source
  • 1491Louis of Orléans is released by Charles VIII of France after three years of imprisonment.source
  • 1497At what is supposed to be a meeting at Nysa about a united front by the nobility of Poland against the Ottoman Empire, Nicholas II of Niemodlin (Mikołaj II Niemodlińsk), the Duke of Opole in Poland as well as ruler of the duchies of Niemodlin, Brzeg, and Strzelce, attempts to stab two of the other nobles attending, Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn and the Bishop Jan IV Roth. Nicholas is beheaded the next day.source
  • 1503The book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis is re-published in an English translation.source
  • 1505The future King Henry VIII repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command.source
  • 1506The Treaty of Villafáfila is signed between Austria and Spain.source
  • 1519The Leipzig Debate begins at the Pleissenburg lecture hall in the German city of Leipzig in Saxony, as Martin Luther defends his ideas on the Protestant Reformation against challenges by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement. While there, he is challenged to a theological debate by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement. The debate lasts until July 15 and gains new followers to Luther's theology.source
  • 1523Pargali Ibrahim Pasha is appointed as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Suleiman the Magnificent. He will serve as the Ottoman administrator for almost 13 years until his sudden arrest and execution in 1536.source
  • 1536San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado in Honduras.source
  • 1542Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sets sail to explore the northwest of the Pacific Ocean.source
  • 1550the English Council resolves to establish a mint in Ireland.source
  • 1551The Edict of Châteaubriant is promulgated in France by King Henri II, providing for an increasingly severe series of measures in the Roman Catholic Kingdom to be taken against Protestants, considered to be heretics.source
  • 1551Edict of Châteaubriant prohibits possessing any books listed on the University of Paris's Index, translating the Bible or works of the Church Fathers, importing books from Geneva or other places not under the Catholic Church's control, or printing or selling any religious books written in the last 40 years.source
  • 1568Ottoman pirate Kılıç Ali Pasha, formerly Italian farmer Giovanni Dionigi Galeni, is appointed as the Ottoman Beylerbey of Ottoman Algeria by the Sultan Selim II.source
  • 1571Jesus College is established "within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation" in England, by Welsh cleric and lawyer Hugh Price.source
  • 1575Turlough Luineach O'Neill submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300 Scottish mercenaries.source
  • 1583Ten months after being taken hostage on August 23, 1582 in the Raid of Ruthven, the 17-year-old King James VI of Scotland is able to escape Falkland Prison and flees to safety in St. Andrews.source
  • 1598The ill-fated Dutch expedition of Jacques Mahu begins as his ship Hoop, along with the ships Liefde, Geloof, Trouwe and Blijde Boodschap, departs from Rotterdam.source
  • 1637The first English venture to China is attempted by Captain John Weddell, who sails into port in Macau and Canton during the late Ming dynasty with six ships. The voyages are for trade, which is dominated here by the Portuguese (at this time combined with the power of Spain). He brings 38,421 pairs of eyeglasses, perhaps the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.source
  • 1637English merchants led by captain John Weddell establish the first trading settlement at Canton.source
  • 1638Patriarch Cyril of Constantinople is deposed for high treason, strangled and thrown into the sea by Janissaries, on Ottoman Sultan Murad IV's command.source
  • 1656The Navy of the Ottoman Empire suffers a major defeat after two days of fighting against the navies of the Republic of Venice and of Malta in the Battle of the Dardanelles, one of the Turkish straits that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Out of 98 Ottoman Turkish ships under the command of Kenan Pasha, 82 are either captured or destroyed. Venice loses only three of its ships, but its commander, Admiral Lorenzo Marcello, is killed by a direct cannon hit to his flagship.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
  • 1667An attempt by Dutch ships to enter the River Thames above Gravesend is called off.source
  • 1667George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, one of the five members of the Cabal ministry in England (Lords Chudleigh, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderdale), turns himself in after a warrant for his arrest is issued on February 25 on charges of treason (including the casting of the horoscope of King Charles II). He is held in the Tower of London for four years before being released on July 17, 1671.source
  • 1667George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, one of the five members of the Cabal ministry (Lords Chudleigh, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderdale), turns himself in after a warrant for his arrest is issued on 25 February on charges of treason (including the casting of the King's horoscope). He is held in the Tower of London for four years before being released on 17 July 1671.source
  • 1684Francisco de Távora, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, a small colony located in southwestern India at Goa, issues an order prohibiting indigenous residents from speaking their native language, Konkani, and directs them to learn Portuguese within the next three years.source
  • 1693Nine Years' War – Battle of Lagos off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet.source
  • 1697After becoming a Roman Catholic, Augustus the Strong is elected King Augustus II of Poland.source
  • 1709June 27 (June 28 in the Swedish calendar; July 8 New Style) – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: In Ukraine, Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, defeats Charles XII of Sweden, thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.source
  • 1726the Grand Allies, a cartel of coalowning families in the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, is formed by George and Henry Liddell, George Bowes and Sidney and Edward Wortley.source
  • 1727Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a town.source
  • 1730French explorer Alphonse de Pontevez, commanding the frigate Le Lys, claims an Indian Ocean atoll for France and names it after himself as the Alphonse Atoll. The next day, he claims and names the St. François Atoll.source
  • 1732Cron Printz Christian arrives back in Copenhagen from the first Danish expedition to Canton with a valuable cargo of tea, silk and other Chinese products.source
  • 1738The Spanish Empire's Council of the Indies votes, 6 to 4, to re-establish the Viceroyalty of New Granada, incorporating modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama. King Philip V issues the order on August 20, 1738.source
  • 1743June 27 (June 16 O.S.) – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: British forces, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat a French army under the duc de Noailles; King George II of Great Britain (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.source
  • 174327 June (16 June O.S.) – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria – British forces, including the Royal Scots Greys, the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat the French; King George II of Great Britain (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.source
  • 1746Charles Edward Stuart flees to the Isle of Skye from Benbecula disguised as Flora MacDonald's maid.source
  • 1746Charles Edward Stuart escapes to the Isle of Skye with the aid of Flora MacDonald.source
  • 1755Iyoas I becomes the new Emperor of Ethiopia upon the death of his father, Iyasu IIsource
  • 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
  • 1774foundation stone of General Register House in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Adam, is laid; the building will not be opened until 1788.source
  • 1788The Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) breaks out following a staged attack on Swedish troops in Puumala, present-day Finland.source
  • 1789Captain Watkin Tench and party discover the Nepean Riversource
  • 1800War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Neuburg – General Claude Lecourbe leads French forces to victory, securing control of the Danube from Austria.source
  • 1801Siege of Cairo ends: Cairo falls to British troops.source
  • 1806The Alexander arrives in London. Teina and Maki come under the care of Reverend Joseph Hardcastle of the London Missionary Society who tries to arrange for their return to New South Wales. However, before he can do so Teina dies and Maki is kidnapped by a crimp, his later fate unknown.source
  • 1821The Philosophical Society of Australasia is established. It would be renamed as the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1866 at the request of Queen Victoria.source
  • 1825The Canada Company is foundedsource
  • 1825the Excise Licences Act raises Irish excise licences to bring them in line with those of Great Britain.source
  • 1829James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist, leaves a bequest of £100,000 to fund the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1840The anointing of King Christian VIII at Frederiksberg Palace, the last such ceremony to take place in Denmark before it is abolished with the introduction of the Danish constitution in 1849.source
  • 1850Eccentric Robert Pate physically assaults Queen Victoria with his cane in Piccadilly (London).source
  • 1853Taiping Rebellion: The Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the Yellow River.source
  • 1856Royal order institutes a committee to examine Flemish language grievances.source
  • 1860Don Juan won the first Queen's Plate race is held in Toronto.source
  • 1863The Chōshū Five leave Japan secretly to study at University College London, which is part of the ending of sakoku.source
  • 1866June 27–29 – Battle of Langensalza: The Prussians defeat the Hanoverian army.source
  • 1869The fortress of Goryōkaku is turned over to Imperial Japanese forces, bringing an end to the Republic of Ezo, the Battle of Hakodate and the Boshin War, the military phase of the Meiji Restoration.source
  • 1871The Meiji government officially adopts the yen as Japan's modern unit of currency. Coins which have been made in advance with the date 1870 are released into circulation.source
  • 1871The yen becomes the country's national currency.source
  • 1879Murder of Mary Gallagher in Griffintown, Montrealsource
  • 1890Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats the British bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.source
  • 1890In the First Battle of Agordat Italy defeats Mahdist Sudan.source
  • 1894Federalist Revolution: Battle of Passo Fundo in the state of Rio Grande do Sulsource
  • 1899A patent for a form of paperclip is applied for by Norwegian inventor Johan Vaaler but it is never put into production.source
  • 1899A. E. J. Collins, a 13-year-old schoolboy, makes the highest-ever recorded individual score in cricket, 628 not out. His record will stand for 117 years.source
  • 1899The paperclip is patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.source
  • 1903American socialite Aida de Acosta, 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, "No. 9", from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.source
  • 1906Coop Norge is established.source
  • 1906Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.source
  • 1906One of the strongest earthquakes recorded in the UK strikes Swansea with a strength of 5.2 on the Richter Scale, damaging several buildings.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
  • 1921The first signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Providence.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
  • 1929The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.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
  • 1934Imam Yahya of Yemen and Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.source
  • 1934North Yemen and Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.source
  • 1938Kathryn Beaumont, British actresssource
  • 1942WWII: Allied Convoy PQ 17 sails from Iceland, with 35 merchant ships and 3 passenger ships that have been refitted for rescuing the crews of torpedoed ships. There are also one tanker, 6 destroyers and 13 smaller ships for close escort. The convoy is destined for the Soviet port of Archangelsk.source
  • 194627 June to 3 July - 3 July Affairsource
  • 1952Decree 900 in Guatemala orders the redistribution of uncultivated land.source
  • 1954Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup, triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years.source
  • 1954The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.source
  • 1954Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, kill an elderly Israeli farmer on the outskirts of Ra'anana.source
  • 1954Taça de Portugal Finalsource
  • 1957Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, U.S., killing 400 people.source
  • 1957Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.source
  • 1967The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, UK.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
  • 1969June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.source
  • 1969Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada.source
  • 1971Taça de Portugal Finalsource
  • 1971Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East, which first opened on 2nd Avenue in New York City on March 8, 1968.source
  • 1972June 22–30 — Typhoon Ora strucks the Philippines and Southern China.source
  • 1973Coup d'état in Uruguay: pressed by the military, President Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long civic-military dictatorship begins.source
  • 1974The head of the Chilean Military Junta, Army General Augusto Pinochet, assumes the office of "Supreme Chief of the Nation". On December 17, via a Supreme Decree amendment, he will be formally designated President of Chile.source
  • 1976G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.source
  • 1976Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.source
  • 1976The world's first known case of Ebola is recorded in Nzara, Sudan (now South Sudan).source
  • 1976Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv and carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12 takes off from Athens, Greece, headed for Paris, France. The flight is hijacked by Palestinian Arab assailants with German Revolutionäre Zellen supporters and flown to Entebbe Airport (now known as Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released. The hijacking of this flight leads to the IDF hostage-rescue mission "Operation Entebbe" carried out in the Entebbe Airport seven days later (see details above).source
  • 1977Djibouti receives its independence from France.source
  • 1977Constitution for the Federation of Earth is adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.source
  • 1980U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.source
  • 1980Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the sea near Ustica island, Italy, killing all 81 people on board. The cause of the accident remains unclear.source
  • 1980Ustica Massacre: Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea mid-flight from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 people on board.source
  • 1981The first game of paintball is played, in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States.source
  • 1981The E-mu Emulator sampler keyboard with floppy disk operation is unveiled at NAMM international Sound & Music Expo, Chicago. Production Model Serial Number 001 is issued to Stevie Wonder.source
  • 1982The opening of Taitung Station in Taitung City, Taitung County.source
  • 1982The strong storms that began on June 24 cause the overflow of the Mapocho River, one of the biggest disasters in the city, as well as other more serious disasters in the south of the country.source
  • 1984France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.source
  • 1987Egbert Streuer and Bernard Schnieders are victorious in the sidecar class of the Dutch TT.source
  • 1987A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio, Philippines, killing 50.source
  • 1988Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kills 9 to 12 and injures over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.source
  • 1988The Gare de Lyon rail accident occurs in Paris, France as a commuter train headed inbound to the terminal crashes into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57.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
  • 1993U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.source
  • 1993June 26–28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.source
  • 1995Supreme Court orders permanent cease of operations of jai alai frontons in the country. It has decided with finality that the sport is illegal following opposition from the government.source
  • 1998Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.source
  • 1998Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang was officially opened as the main international airport in Malaysia, replacing Subang International Airport in Subang.source
  • 1998The 6.3 Mw Adana–Ceyhan earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving at least 145 dead and 1,500–1,600 injured.source
  • 2007Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a leadership election.source
  • 20172017 cyberattacks on Ukraine: A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.source
  • 2018June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.source
  • 2020Micheál Martin succeeds Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach of Ireland, with Varadkar becoming Tánaiste in a historic three-party coalition government.source
  • 202253 migrants from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador are found dead in a tractor trailer in San Antonio, Texas, United States.source
  • 2025The U.S., with Qatari support, brokers a preliminary peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending their armed conflict that started in 2022.source

Births

  • 850Ibrahim II, emir of the Aghlabids (died 902)source
  • 1350Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (died 1425)source
  • 1430Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses (died 1475)source
  • 1441John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, German nobleman (died 1480)source
  • 1447Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (died 1518)source
  • 1462Louis XII, King of France (1498–1515), King of Naples (1501–1504) (died 1515)source
  • 1462Louis XII (died 1515)source
  • 1464Ernst II of Saxony, Archbishop of Magdeburg (1476–1513) and Administrator of Halberstadt (1480–1513) (died 1513)source
  • 1497Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1546)source
  • 1510Kempe Gowda I feudatory ruler under the Vijayanagara Empire is born (died 1569)source
  • 1550King Charles IX of France (died 1574)source
  • 1596Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (died 1655)source
  • 1696William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (died 1759)source
  • 1740James Woodforde, English clergyman and diarist (died 1803)source
  • 1806Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician, logician (died 1871)source
  • 1846Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (died 1891)source
  • 1850Lafcadio Hearn, Greco-Japanese author (died 1904)source
  • 1865John Monash, Australian general (died 1931)source
  • 1869Emma Goldman, Russian-born anarchist (died 1940)source
  • 1880Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, writer and lecturer (died 1968)source

Deaths

  • 362Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta, Roman Catholic, priests, martyrs and saintssource
  • 992Conan I, duke of Brittanysource
  • 992Battle of Conquereuil: The Angevins under Fulk III "the Black", Count of Anjou, defeat the forces of Conan I, duke of Brittany, who is killed in the battle at Conquereuil (France).source
  • 1045Hemma of Gurk, Austrian religious founder and countess (born 980)source
  • 1065George the Hagiorite, Georgian calligrapher (born 1009)source
  • 1066Arialdo, Italian nobleman and deaconsource
  • 1087Henry the Long, margrave of the Nordmarksource
  • 1180Turan-Shah, Ayyubid emir (prince) of Damascussource
  • 1193Robert FitzRalph, English archdeacon and bishopsource
  • 1194Sancho VI ("the Wise"), king of Navarre (born 1132)source
  • 1276Henry of Antioch, Outremer nobleman (born 1217)source
  • 1291Tanhum of Jerusalem, Outremer lexicographer (born 1220)source
  • 1296Count Floris V of Holland (born 1254)source
  • 1297Bérard de Got, French cardinal, bishop and diplomatsource
  • 1315Mieszko I, Polish nobleman and knight (House of Piast)source
  • 1456Alfonso V of Aragon, King of Aragon (born 1396)source
  • 1458King Alfonso V of Aragon (born 1396)source
  • 1458Alfonso V of Aragon, King of Aragon in Spain since 1416 and King of Naples in Italy since 1442, dies at his home at the Castel dell'Ovo in Naples. By prior arrangement with his family, Alfonso is succeeded as King of Naples by his son, Fernando, popularly known in Naples as "Ferrante". At the same time, Alfonso's brother Juan, King of Navarre and King of Sicily, becomes the new King of Aragon.source
  • 1477Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (born 1438)source
  • 1497Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel leader (executed)source
  • 1497Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel leader (executed)source
  • 1556Thirteen English Protestants (11 men and two women), the "Stratford Martyrs", are burned at the stake at Stratford-le-Bow near London after being convicted of heresy.source
  • 1574Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (born 1511)source
  • 1589Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern, princess (1561)source
  • 1601Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys (born 1525)source
  • 1636Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō (born 1567)source
  • 1654Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German theologian (born 1586)source
  • 1655Eleonora Gonzaga, Holy Roman Empress, married to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1598)source
  • 1689Richard Waldron, colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (born 1615)source
  • 1729Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (born 1665)source
  • 1794Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian statesman (born 1711)source
  • 1829James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America, and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution (born 1764)source
  • 1831Sophie Germain, French mathematician (born 1776)source
  • 1839The emperor of the Sikh Empire, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, dies at 58.source
  • 1839Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab (Sikh Empire) (born 1780)source
  • 1844Hyrum Smith, American Latter Day Saint leader (born 1800)source
  • 1844Joseph Smith, American founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1805)source
  • 1844Killing of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum, are murdered in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois by an armed mob, leading to a succession crisis in the movement. John Taylor, future president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is severely injured but survives, while the fourth man inside the upper room, then-apostle Willard Richards, escapes with only a graze to his upper ear.source
  • 1848Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer (born 1771)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
  • 1876Harriet Martineau, British social theorist, writer (born 1802)source
  • 1878Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois, 'father of the Illinois Central Railroad' (born 1800)source
  • 1962Paul Viiding, poet, author and literary critic (born 1904)source
  • 1994Tai Solarin, educator and author who established the Mayflower School in Ikenne (born 1922)source