Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1381Peasants’ Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
- 1418An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
- 1429Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1550The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
- 1560Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
- First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
- England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
- French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe’s attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
- American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
- Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
- The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
- American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
- Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
- Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines’ independence from Spain.
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- New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- The Servants of India Society was established in Pune, India by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
- At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
- A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
- Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
- The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
- American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
- Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
- Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
- The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
- Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
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