Historical Events In June - 21
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
0524 Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France 

0524 Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28. 

0996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas. 

1002 Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54). 

1128 Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik. 

1208 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies 

1377 Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies. 

1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian 

1527 Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57. 

1528 Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603). 

1529 Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France 

1529 John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69. 

1547 Great fire in Moscow. 

1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda 

1573 Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle. 

1577 Giovanni Del Turco, composer 

1582 The Incident at HonnÅ-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan 

1591 Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies 

1596 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov. 

1607 inaugural Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown. 

1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 

1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 

1640 Abraham Mignon, still life painter 

1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia and Sweden sign peace treaty 

1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England. 

1668 Cajetan Kolberer, composer. 

1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded 

1684 MA Bay Colony's charter revoked. 

1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter 

1688 Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock) 

1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist. 

1732 Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer. 

1734 In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. 

1740 Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief). 

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