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58 events  ·  105 deaths  ·  206 births

Events on 1 June 58

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Year 193

The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.

Year 1215

Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.

Year 1252

Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.

Year 1298

Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.

Year 1495

A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

Year 1533

Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

Year 1535

Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.

Year 1648

The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.

Year 1649

Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.

Year 1660

Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Birthdays on 1 June 206

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Mstislav I of Kiev
Mstislav I of Kiev
b. 1076 – d. 1132
Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
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Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
b. 1134 – d. 1158
Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou (b. 1134)
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
b. 1300 – d. 1338
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney
Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney
b. 1451 – d. 1508
Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)
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Anne of Savoy
b. 1455 – d. 1480
Anne of Savoy (d. 1480)
Enno I, Count of East Frisia
Enno I, Count of East Frisia
b. 1460 – d. 1491
Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (d. 1491)
Tiedemann Giese
Tiedemann Giese
b. 1480 – d. 1550
Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
Maarten van Heemskerck
Maarten van Heemskerck
b. 1498 – d. 1574
Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
b. 1522 – d. 1590
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590)
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
b. 1563 – d. 1612
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State for England (d. 1612)
Frans Post
Frans Post
b. 1612 – d. 1680
Frans Post, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
Geminiano Montanari
Geminiano Montanari
b. 1633 – d. 1687
Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687)

Deaths on 1 June 105

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Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus
d. 193 (b. 133)
Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
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Ran Min
d. 352
Ran Min, "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang) during the Sixteen Kingdoms
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Pyrrhus of Constantinople
d. 654
Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople
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Li Tongjie
d. 829
Li Tongjie, general of the Tang Dynasty
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Empress Dowager Xiao (Tang dynasty)
d. 847
Xiao, empress of the Tang Dynasty
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Theodosius Romanus
d. 896
Theodosius Romanus, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
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Thietmar, Count of Merseburg
d. 932
Thietmar, duke of Saxony
Minamoto no Yukiie
Minamoto no Yukiie
d. 1186
Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford
d. 1220 (b. 1176)
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (b. 1176)
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Marguerite Porete
d. 1310
Marguerite Porete, French mystic
Władysław II Jagiełło
Władysław II Jagiełło
d. 1434
King Wladislaus II of Poland
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John Story
d. 1571 (b. 1504)
John Story, English martyr (b. 1504)