Historical Events In June - 01
Saturday, 21 February 2026
0193 Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated 

0193 Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 

0794 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt. 

1191 Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies 

1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen. 

1215 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 Beijing 

1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg is recorded as becoming ruler of Austrian/Bull market 

1340 Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies 

1434 Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies. 

1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua. 

1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III. 

1495 The inaugural written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller 

1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller. 

1503 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col 

1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief. 

1533 Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England 

1549 Allesandre Spontone, composer. 

1562 Emperor Ferdinand and Sultan Suleiman signs treaty 

1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612). 

1568 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels. 

1568 Duke of Alva, and 18 nobles, beheaded. 

1571 John Story, English Catholic. 

1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt 

1611 Felician Schwab, composer. 

1638 The inaugural earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass 

1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass. 

1639 Melchior Franck, German composer. 

1641 France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant. 

1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow 

1653 Georg Muffat, composer. 

1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY) 

1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony 

1660 Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) 

1670 Engl king Charles II and Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 

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