Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of June 08 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0065  Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem   

0068  Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba.   

0218  Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54.   

0452  Italy invaded by Attila the Hun   

0536  In this year, St Silverius starts his reign as Catholic Pope   

0570  Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca   

0632  Mohammed, founder of Islam, dies.   

0632  Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition).   

0793  Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne   

0979  Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France.   

1042  Hardicanute, King of England (1040-42), Lambeth.   

1115  Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64   

1191  Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade   

1318  Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II   

1376  "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46   

1405  Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders   

1476  George Neville, English archbishop and statesman   

1551  Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma   

1612  Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49.   

1624  Earthquake strikes Peru   

1625  Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer is born.   

1625  Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)   

1632  Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard.   

1652  William Dampier, English explorer/pirate   

1661  John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39.   

1663  Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish   

1671  Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor).   

1688  Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried.   

1690  Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.   

1694  English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed).   

1695  Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66   

1711  Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61   

1722  Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer.   

1724  John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer.   

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