Historical Events In June - 24

0451  10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet   

0803  Higbald of Lindisfarne   

0843  Vikings destroy Nantes.   

0972  Battle of Cedynia, the inaugural documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.   

1128  Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa.   

1244  Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308).   

1298  Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred   

1314  Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England   

1322  Jews are expelled from France.   

1322  Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time   

1322  Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry).   

1340  Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30000 killed   

1374  A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance leads to people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.   

1396  Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna   

1397  Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom.   

1441  Eton College founded by Henry VI.   

1472  Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow.   

1475  Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg and Eichstattt), dies at 54.   

1497  In this year, John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England.   

1497  In this year, John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he are discovered Asia in Nova Scotia)   

1499  Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians).   

1509  Henry VIII crowned King of England.   

1519  Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39.   

1522  Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France   

1527  Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions   

1529  Zurich and catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel   

1533  Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth   

1535  Anabaptists Protestants conquerered and disbanded.   

1535  Anabaptists Protestants conquered and disbanded   

1540  Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.   

1542  Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint.   

1546  Robert Parsons, English jesuit (A Letter Disclosure)   

1561  Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension minister of Leiden   

1572  5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged   

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1244  On June - 24 birth of hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)   

1322  Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry) was born on June - 24.   

1343  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)   

1386  On June - 24 birth of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)   

1485  On this day in history birth of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)   

1499  Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians) was born on this day in history.   

1519  Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) was born on June - 24.   

1533  Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth was born on June - 24.   

0803  On this day in history death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) on June - 24.   

1439  Death of Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) on this day in history.   

1475  On this day in history albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54   

1519  Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1520  Death of Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) on June - 24.   

1572  Death of Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged on this day in history.   

1604  Death of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) on this day in history.