Year 193 » The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassination called assassinated.
Year 1215 Calendar » Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchens known as Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
Year 1252 Calendar » Alfonso X of Castile or Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and King of León or León.
Year 1298 Calendar » Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
Year 1495 Calendar » Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
Year 1533 Calendar » Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen consort or Queen of List of English consorts or England.
Year 1535 Calendar » Combined forces loyal to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attack and expel the Ottoman Empire Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis (1535) Conquest of Tunis.
Year 1648 Calendar » The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
Year 1649 Calendar » Start of the Philippine revolts against Spain Sumuroy Revolt (1649-50) e.g Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
Year 1660 Calendar » Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Religious Society of Friends named Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Year 1670 Calendar » In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Year 1679 Calendar » The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
Year 1779 Calendar » Benedict Arnold, a General Officer known as general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
Year 1792 Calendar » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state named state of the United States.
Year 1794 Calendar » The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Year 1796 Calendar » Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state known as state of the United States.
Year 1812 Calendar » War of 1812: The President of the United States called U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress of the United States named Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
Year 1815 Calendar » Napoleon I named Napoleon promulgates a revised Charter of 1815 called Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
Year 1831 Calendar » James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
Year 1855 Calendar » The United States e.g American adventurer William Walker (filibuster) called William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
Year 1861 Calendar » American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate States Army known as Confederate combat casualty.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
Year 1868 Calendar » The Long Walk of the Navajo Treaty of Bosque Redondo or Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo people known as Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
Year 1879 Calendar » Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial e.g Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
Year 1913 Calendar » The Greek-Serbian Alliance of 1913 called Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
Year 1916 Calendar » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States called United States Supreme Court.
Year 1918 Calendar » World War I, Western Front (World War I) called Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
Year 1929 Calendar » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
Year 1939 Calendar » First flight of the Germany or German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
Year 1941 » The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
Year 1943 Calendar » British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard (actor) Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the United Kingdom
Year 1946 Calendar » Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
Year 1958 Calendar » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
Year 1962 Calendar » The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
Year 1974 Calendar » Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
Year 1974 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal 'Emergency Medicine'.
Year 1978 Calendar » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
Year 1979 Calendar » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
Year 1980 Calendar » CNN named Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
Year 1990 Calendar » George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
Year 2001 Calendar » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
Year 2009 Calendar » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
Year 2009 » General Motors General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization called files for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code e.g Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
Year 2011 Calendar » A 2011 New England tornado outbreak or rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts or Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.