June 28 Historical Events

The following events took place on June 28. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1098
  Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.
• 1360
  Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
• 1461
  Edward IV is crowned King of England.
• 1519
  Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1635
  Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651
  The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
• 1709
  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava
• 1745
  War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
• 1776
  The Battle of Sullivan’s Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
• 1776
  Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• 1778
  The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
• 1807
  Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
• 1838
  Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1841
  The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
• 1846
  Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

• 1855
  Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
• 1859
  The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• 1865
  The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• 1880
  The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• 1881
  Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
• 1882
  The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• 1894
  Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1895
  El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
• 1895
  The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’ claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent.”
• 1896
  An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• 1902
  The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• 1904
  The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
• 1914
  Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
• 1919
  The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• 1921
  Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.