Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
66121June 10Event1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
66122June 10Event1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
66123June 10Event1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
66124June 10Event1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
66125June 10Event1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
66126June 10Event1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
66127June 10Event1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
66128June 10Event1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
66129June 10Event1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
66130June 10Event1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
66131June 10Event1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
66132June 10Event1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
66133June 10Event1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
66134June 10Event1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
66135June 10Event1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
66136June 10Event1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
66137June 10Event1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
66138June 10Event1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
66139June 10Event1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
66140June 10Event1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro
66141June 10Event1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
66142June 10Event1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
66143June 10Event1912 – The Villisca axe murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
66144June 10Event1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
66145June 10Event1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
66146June 10Event1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
66147June 10Event1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
66148June 10Event1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
66149June 10Event1935 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
66150June 10Event1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.

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