June 1 Historical Events
The following events took place on June 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 193The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
- 1215Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
- 1252Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León.
- 1298Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
- 1495A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
- 1533Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
- 1535Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
- 1648The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- 1649Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
- 1660Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1670In 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.
- 1679The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
- 1779Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
- 1792Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1794The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1796Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
- 1812War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1813James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: “Don't give up the ship!”
- 1815Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
- 1831James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the Magnetic North Pole.
- 1855The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- 1857Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is published.
- 1861American Civil War: Battle of Fairfax Court House: The first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
- 1862American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
- 1868The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1876Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1879Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1890The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
- 1910Robert Falcon Scott’s second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
- 1913The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
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