AncientPages.com – On June 22, 1611, the crew of Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson. Two years earlier, in 1609, Captain Hudson sailed to the Americas to find his elusive Northwest Passage to China through the frozen wastes.

AncientPages.com – On June 21, 1547, a large fire engulfed the city of Moscow, almost destroying the Kremlin and the capital. Rumors of witchcraft, riots and a new era of governance were all consequences of the fire that destroyed much of

AncientPages.com – On June 20th, 1840, Samuel F.B. Morse (1791 – 1872) received a patent for the single-wire telegraph system. He was a co-developer of the Morse Code and helped develop telegraphy’s commercial use. Ancient civilizations of China, Egypt, and

AncientPages.com – On June 19, 1667,  the Dutch navy executed the bravest raid in its maritime history. English troops assembled at the town of Rochester on the River Medway after news reached London that a Dutch fleet commanded by Michiel

AncientPages.com – On June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart flew from Newfoundland, Canada, to Wales. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon accompanied her in their Fokker tri-motor airplane during this flight. American aviator/pilot

AncientPages.com – On June 17, 1885, the most iconic monument in the U.S., the Statue of Liberty, arrived in New York Harbor as a gift of friendship from France to commemorate the ideals shared by the French and American governments.

AncientPages.com – On June 16, 1779, the Great Siege of Gibraltar began when Spain declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. This historical event was the most significant military action fought during the American War of Independence in terms of

AncientPages.com – On June 15, 1215, the Magna Carta was signed between King John and the barons of Medieval England. ‘Magna Carta’ (in Latin: “Great Charter”) was one of the most important documents of Medieval England. The document was a series of written

AncientPages.com – On June 14, 1834, the first U.S. patent for a practical underwater diving suit was issued to Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine. It is the first closed helmet diving apparatus; the helmet was made of lead, and the air

AncientPages.com – On June 13, 313 AD, the Edict of Milan was signed by Roman Emperor Constantine, and the persecution of Christians ended. When Emperor Constantine ascended to the throne, he took a different path, extending an offer of peace and

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