Historical Events In June - 26
Saturday, 27 April 2024
0363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield on June - 26.
0363 Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on this day in history.
0684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope on June - 26.
1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened) on this day in history.
1291 On this day in history eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1409 Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V on this day in history.
1483 On June - 26 richard III usurps English throne
1483 Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English king Richard III on this day in history.
1498 Toothbrush invented on June - 26.
1541 On June - 26 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 On June - 26 francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima
1553 On June - 26 christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
1582 Johannes Schultz, composer on June - 26.
1630 On June - 26 swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1631 Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on June - 26.
1655 Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent on June - 26.
1657 On June - 26 tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65
1661 On this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76
1666 Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on June - 26.
1688 Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on June - 26.
1702 On this day in history philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman
1714 On June - 26 spain & 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 on June - 26.
1721 On this day in history dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1723 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians on June - 26.
1730 Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer (cataloguer of "M objects") on June - 26.
1742 On June - 26 arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1747 Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer on June - 26.
1749 On June - 26 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 on June - 26.
1760 Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal on this day in history.
1763 George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes on June - 26.
1778 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on June - 26.
1793 Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on June - 26.