On this day: 15 June

Years ago today

Events · 27

• 763 BCE
  Assyrian eclipse — solar eclipse
• 1184
  Fimreite — 1184 Norwegian naval battle
• 1215(Julian date)
  Magna Carta — charter of rights agreed between King John of England and the nobility in 1215
• 1219(Julian date)
  Battle of Lyndanisse — 1219 battle during the Livonian Crusade
• 1310(Julian date)
  Tiepolo conspiracy — 1310 coup attempt in Venice, Italy
• 1312
  Battle of Rozgony — 1312 battle
• 1410(Julian date)
  Battle of Kosmidion — 1410 battle during the Ottoman Interregnum
• 1567
  Battle of Carberry Hill — 1567 battle
• 1800
  Convention of Alessandria — 1800 Treaty during the War of the Second Coalition
• 1826
  Auspicious Incident — Disbandment of the Ottoman Janissary Corps
• 1834
  1834 Safed Anti-Jewish pogrom — series of riots conducted by local Arab and Muslim villagers in the Jewish community of Safed during the 1834 Palahan uprising
• 1846
  Oregon Treaty — 1846 treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States
• 1859
  Pig War — confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire
• 1864
  Second Battle of Petersburg — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
• 1896
  1896 Sanriku earthquake — one of the most destructive seismic events in Japanese history
• 1920
  1920 Duluth lynchings — lynching of three in 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, United States
• 1944
  Battle of Saipan — 1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
• 1944
  Bombing of Yawata on June 1944 — 1944 air raids on Japan during World War II
• 1949
  New Taiwan dollar — official currency of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• 1954
  Union of European Football Associations — international governing body for association football in Europe
• 1964
  Group of 77 — United Nations coalition
• 1972
  Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z bombing — 1972 airliner bombing
• 1977
  1977 Spanish general election — election for the 1977 Spanish Parliament; first free election since 1936
• 1988
  Ariane 4 — European rocket of the Ariane family
• 1995
  1995 Aigio earthquake — earthquake affecting Greece
• 2000
  June 15th North–South Joint Declaration — 2000 joint Korean statement
• 2006
  Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument — national monument in the United States

Births · 60

• 28(Julian date)
  Emperor Ming of Han — Emperor of the Han dynasty (AD 28-75) (ruled 58-75)
• 1330(Julian date)
  Edward, the Black Prince — Prince of Wales (1330–1376)
• 1479(Julian date)
  Lisa del Giocondo — subject of the Mona Lisa
• 1553(Julian date)
  Archduke Ernest of Austria — Austrian nobleman (1553-1595)
• 1594
  Nicolas Poussin — French painter (1594-1665)
• 1755
  Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy — French chemist (1755-1809)
• 1763
  Kobayashi Issa — Japanese writer (1763-1828)
• 1767
  Rachel Jackson — wife of Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1767–1828)
• 1843
  Edvard Grieg — Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)
• 1852
  Daniel Burley Woolfall — President of FIFA from 1906 to 1918
• 1878
  Margaret Abbott — American golfer (1878–1955)
• 1902
  Erik Erikson — American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
• 1906
  Léon Degrelle — Belgian journalist, politician, SS soldier, fugitive (1906-1994)
• 1915
  Thomas Huckle Weller — American virologist (1915-2008)
• 1916
  Herbert Simon — American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)
• 1917
  John Fenn — American analytical chemist (1917–2010)
• 1918
  François Tombalbaye — President of Chad (1918–1975)
• 1920
  Alberto Sordi — Italian actor (1920–2003)
• 1923
  Erland Josephson — Swedish actor, film director and author (1923-2012)
• 1924
  Ezer Weizman — Israeli politician, 7th president of Israel (1993–2000)
• 1927
  Hugo Pratt — Italian comic book creator (1927-1995)
• 1932
  Mario Cuomo — Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
• 1933
  Mohammad-Ali Rajai — Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran (1933-1981)
• 1937
  Waylon Jennings — American country musician (1937–2002)
• 1941
  Harry Nilsson — American singer-songwriter (1941–1994)

Deaths · 60

• 923(Julian date)
  Robert I of France — King of West Francia from 922 to 923
• 948
  Romanos I Lekapenos — Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944
• 991(Julian date)
  Theophanu — regent empress of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1073(Julian date)
  Go-Sanjō — Emperor of Japan
• 1184(Julian date)
  Magnus V of Norway — king of Norway
• 1189(Julian date)
  Minamoto no Yoshitsune — samurai of the late Heian and early Kamakura period
• 1246(Julian date)
  Frederick II, Duke of Austria — Duke of Austria and the Duke of Styria from 1230 to his death in 1246
• 1341
  Andronikos III Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor (r. 1328–1341)
• 1381(Julian date)
  Wat Tyler — 14th-century English rebel
• 1383(Julian date)
  John VI Kantakouzenos — Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383)
• 1383(Julian date)
  Matthew Kantakouzenos — emperor and autocrat of the Romans
• 1389(Julian date)
  Lazar Hrebeljanović — Medieval Serbian ruler
• 1416(Julian date)
  John, Duke of Berry — French duke
• 1467(Julian date)
  Philip III the Good — Duke of Burgundy from 1419 to 1467 (1396-1467)
• 1521(Julian date)
  Tamás Bakócz — Catholic cardinal (1442-1521)
• 1734
  Giovanni Ceva — Italian mathematician (1647-1734)
• 1768
  James Short — British mathematician (1710-1768)
• 1772
  Louis-Claude Daquin — French composer
• 1785
  Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier — French balloonist
• 1829
  Francis Buchanan-Hamilton — Scottish physician, traveller and naturalist (1762-1829)
• 1844
  Thomas Campbell — Scottish poet (1777-1844)
• 1849
  James K. Polk — President of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1795–1849)
• 1858
  Ary Scheffer — Dutch painter (1795-1858)
• 1888
  Frederick III, German Emperor — as King of Prussia German Emperor (1831–1888)
• 1889
  Mihai Eminescu — Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)