AncientPages.com – On June 12, 1381, the first great popular rebellion in English history began and was known as the Peasants’ Revolt or Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. From the 1340s onwards, the catastrophic plague, known as the Black Death, had swept

AncientPages.com – On June 11, 323 BC, Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II of Macedon, died in Babylon after suffering ten days of high fever. Theories concerning his cause of death have ranged from poisoning to malaria to

AncientPages.com – On June 10, 1540, Thomas Cromwell was arrested in Westminster and sent to the Tower of London. An Act of Attainder convicted him of heresy and treason, but it also denied Cromwell the right to a fair trial

AncientPages.com – On June 9, 68, Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide. He was the notoriously brutal Roman Emperor responsible for the Great Fire of Rome, the bloody persecution of the early Christians, and the murder of his mother, Agrippina. However,

AncientPages.com – On June 8, 1191, the famous English King Richard the Lionheart arrived in the Holy Land to participate in the Crusade. He arrived with an English fleet of 100 ships carrying 8,000 men, while Philip II of France arrived on April

AncientPages.com – On June 7, 1863, French troops under General François Achille Bazaine entered Mexico City. The main army entered the city three days later, led by a Marshal of France, General Élie Frédéric Forey. General Bazaine attacking the Fort

AncientPages.com – On June 6, 1944, there was D-Day. This important day in European history will never be forgotten. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation

AncientPages.com – On June 5, 70 CE, the Roman Siege of Jerusalem ended as rebel forces in the city were beaten. Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem. The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, by David

AncientPages.com – On June 4, 1798, Casanova – the famous seducer and adventurer, dies in a Castle in Bohemia. Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Narici. Image credit: Public Domain Giacomo Casanova died alone at the advanced age of 73 years in the

AncientPages.com – On June 3, 1853, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born at Charlton, near Greenwich, London, England. Sir Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made significant contributions to the reconstruction of history through the study of ancient

AncientPages.com – On June 2, 1858, Comet Donati was first observed by astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati in Florence, Italy. Donati Comet is considered one of the most spectacular astronomical events of the nineteenth century. Comet C/1858 L1 (Donati) on October 5,

AncientPages.com – On June 1, 1676, a dramatic naval Battle of Öland was fought between the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea and an allied Danish-Dutch fleet. Just as the battle began, the Swedish flagship Kronan sank, taking with it

AncientPages.com – On May 31, 1279, BC, Ramesses II (1303 BC-1213 BC) became the third king of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt at the age of twenty-five. Ramesses II – called by his successors and later Egyptians the “Great Ancestor” –

AncientPages.com – On May 30, 1010, Emperor Renzong of Song was born. His name was Zhao Zhen, and he was the fourth emperor of the Song dynasty in China.  He was a very unusual person. Emperor Renzong of the Song

AncientPages.com – On May 29, 1660, Charles II was restored to the throne. The years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period. During this time, Cromwell’s regime was abolished, and the monarchy was restored. Charles II