Historical Events In June - 09
Saturday, 21 February 2026
0068 Nero, the Emperor of Rome, commits suicide. 

0068 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging 

0068 Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31 

0373 Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist. 

0630 King Shahrbaraz of Persia. 

0641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria 

0721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. 

0922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France 

1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen 

1171 Jacob Ben Meir, [Rabbenu Tam], French Tosofist, dies 

1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy. 

1361 Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69 

1382 Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies. 

1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 

1510 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem 

1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch 

1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons 

1531 Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V. 

1534 Jacques Cartier inaugural sails into mouth of St Lawrence River 

1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River 

1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England. 

1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland 

1572 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44 

1573 Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher 

1583 Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 

1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, composer. 

1597 Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter. 

1597 Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies 

1628 inaugural deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass. 

1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass 

1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705). 

1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the inaugural legal corporation in the Americas. 

1656 Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies 

1672 Peter The Great, Tsar Of Russia is born. 

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