Historical Events In June - 26

0363  Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield   

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies.   

0684  In this year, St Benedict II starts his reign as Catholic Pope.   

1284  Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)   

1291  Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England.   

1409  Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V.   

1483  Richard III usurps English throne   

1483  Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English king Richard III.   

1498  Toothbrush invented   

1541  Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed   

1541  Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima   

1553  Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter   

1582  Johannes Schultz, composer.   

1630  Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde   

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent.   

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76.   

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies.   

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies.   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman.   

1714  Spain and Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement.   

1718  Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him   

1721  Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America.   

1723  After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians   

1730  Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer (cataloguer of "M objects")   

1742  Arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence).   

1747  Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer.   

1749  Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer   

1754  Anthony Henday, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, leaves York Factory with a party of Plains Cree returning to the interior; returns June 23, 1755, having traveled as far west as present-day Red Deer, Alberta.   

1760  Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal.   

1763  George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes.   

1778  Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77.   

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies   

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1575  On this day in history birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

1582  On this day in history birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.   

1681  On June - 26 birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)   

1689  On this day in history birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on this day in history.   

1703  On June - 26 birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)   

0363  On this day in history flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies   

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on this day in history.   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.   

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on June - 26.   

1657  On this day in history tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1666  On this day in history richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies   

1688  On June - 26 ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies