Events on 21 June 43
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A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
Year 1529
French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
Year 1582
Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
Year 1621
Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
Year 1734
In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
Year 1768
James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
Year 1788
New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the ninth state in the United States.
Year 1791
King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
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