Historical Events In June - 29
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
0512 A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland 

0922 France's Charles III (the Simple) is deposed by rebellious barons and replaced with Robert, brother of King Odo, who is crowned king of the Franks at Reims while Charles gathers an army to march against the usurper. 

1021 Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies 

1059 Bernard II, Duke of Saxony 

1149 Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din 

1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway. 

1293 Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies. 

1306 Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/are discovered subtemple at Jochiji, dies. 

1312 Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned. 

1377 French invasion fleet lands at Rye England 

1428 Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good 

1458 Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies. 

1517 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist. 

1529 Emperor Karel V and Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona. 

1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada 

1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic 

1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish artist is born. 

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down 

1620 John Aerts, Flemish sculptor 

1659 The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop 

1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia. 

1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports 

1696 Michel Lambert, composer, dies 

1738 Constantin Reindl, composer. 

1749 New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island) 

1755 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic. 

1762 Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II. 

1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America 

1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay. 

1776 Va state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor. 

1779 Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51. 

1783 August Alexander Klengel, composer 

1784 Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55 

1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. 

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