SomeFacts | June 15

On this day - June 15

Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the ...

844 — Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.

923 — Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King ...

1184 — The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner ...

1215 — King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta.

1219 — Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise ...

1246 — With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg ...

1310 — The Tiepolo conspiracy, seeking to seize power in the Republic ...

1312 — At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a ...

1410 — Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa ...

1410 — In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei ...

1520 — Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge ...

1607 — Virginia Colonists finished building James's Fort, to ...

1804 — New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United ...

1834 — The looting of Safed commences.

1846 — The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States ...

1859 — Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.

1896 — One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills ...

1904 — A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York ...

1919 — John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop ...

1920 — Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig ...

1940 — World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to ...

1944 — In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy ...

1944 — World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of ...

1972 — Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, ...

1977 — After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the ...

1991 — In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second ...

1992 — The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. ...

1996 — The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ...

2013 — A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, ...