Year 421 Calendar » Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Istanbul known as Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
Year 1099 Calendar » First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem (1099) named Siege of Jerusalem begins.
Year 1420 Calendar » Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
Year 1494 Calendar » Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
Year 1628 Calendar » The Petition of Right, a Fundamental Laws of England known as major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I of England called Charles I and becomes law.
Year 1654 Calendar » Louis XIV of France e.g Louis XIV is crowned King of Kingdom of France e.g France.
Year 1692 Calendar » Port Royal, Jamaica, was hit by a 1692 Jamaica earthquake e.g catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people were killed and 3,000 were seriously injured.
Year 1776 Calendar » Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
Year 1788 Calendar » French Revolution: Day of the Tiles — civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
Year 1800 Calendar » David Thompson (explorer) known as David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
Year 1810 Calendar » The newspaper 'Gazeta de Buenos Ayres' is first published in Argentina.
Year 1832 Calendar » Second cholera pandemic e.g Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish Canadian e.g Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
Year 1862 Calendar » The United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
Year 1863 Calendar » During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French Second Empire or French troops.
Year 1866 Calendar » 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand, Quebec called Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
Year 1880 Calendar » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the 'Campaña del Desierto' (Desert Campaign).
Year 1892 Calendar » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, 'Plessy v. Ferguson'.
Year 1892 » Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
Year 1893 Calendar » Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
Year 1899 Calendar » American Temperance movement in the United States or Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalism named vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
Year 1909 Calendar » Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
Year 1917 Calendar » World War I: Battle of Messines (1917) known as Battle of Messines Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath Germany called German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
Year 1919 Calendar » Sette giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
Year 1929 Calendar » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
Year 1936 Calendar » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
Year 1938 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Kuomintang called Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Imperial Japanese Army named Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
Year 1940 Calendar » Haakon VII of Norway called King Haakon VII, Olav V of Norway or Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Empire of Japan or Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu Island named Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
Year 1942 » World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: The steamer 'Danae', carrying 350 Crete or Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
Year 1944 » World War II: Invasion of Normandy called Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canada e.g Canadian prisoners of war.
Year 1948 Calendar » Edvard Beneš resigns as List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia known as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
Year 1955 Calendar » Lux Radio Theater signs off-the-air or off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway theatre known as Broadway shows and popular films.
Year 1965 Calendar » The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in 'Griswold v. Connecticut', effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
Year 1971 Calendar » The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Cohen v. California known as Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Year 1971 » The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives known as Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew raid or Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
Year 1975 Calendar » 1975 Cricket World Cup called The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
Year 1977 Calendar » 500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II or Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom named Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
Year 1982 Calendar » Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.