64981 | June 7 | Event | 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. |
64982 | June 7 | Event | 1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli. |
64983 | June 7 | Event | 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. |
64984 | June 7 | Event | 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law. |
64985 | June 7 | Event | 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France. |
64986 | June 7 | Event | 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured. |
64987 | June 7 | Event | 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence. |
64988 | June 7 | Event | 1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles — civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. |
64989 | June 7 | Event | 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. |
64990 | June 7 | Event | 1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. |
64991 | June 7 | Event | 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. |
64992 | June 7 | Event | 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade. |
64993 | June 7 | Event | 1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. |
64994 | June 7 | Event | 1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. |
64995 | June 7 | Event | 1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign). |
64996 | June 7 | Event | 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. |
64997 | June 7 | Event | 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. |
64998 | June 7 | Event | 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience. |
64999 | June 7 | Event | 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. |
65000 | June 7 | Event | 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. |
65001 | June 7 | Event | 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. |
65002 | June 7 | Event | 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16. |
65003 | June 7 | Event | 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. |
65004 | June 7 | Event | 1919 – Sette Giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta. |
65005 | June 7 | Event | 1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. |
65006 | June 7 | Event | 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president. |
65007 | June 7 | Event | 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. |
65008 | June 7 | Event | 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed. |
65009 | June 7 | Event | 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later |
65010 | June 7 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. |