June 16 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays
Thursday, 06 August 2026
0632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era. 

0956 Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies 

1216 Innocent III, pope, dies at 54 

1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64. 

1338 German monarch declares pope and king's decree redundant. 

1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 

1487 Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell. 

1492 Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded. 

1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison. 

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland. 

1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63 

1583 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent 

1620 Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies. 

1624 Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown 

1633 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer. 

1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer 

1644 Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54 

1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74. 

1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow. 

1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow. 

1673 Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg 

1722 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 

1745 English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River. 

1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army. 

1752 Meingosus Gaelle, composer. 

1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 

1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians. 

1755 British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians. 

1774 Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky 

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill) 

1779 In support of the US, Spain declares war on England. 

1784 Holland forbids orange clothes. 

1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies. 

1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch). 

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