Historical events on June 17
JUNE 17, 1775
American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the
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JUNE 17, 653
Pope Martin I was arrested in the Lateran Palace, Rome, and taken to Constantinople.
Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death 16
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JUNE 17, 1919
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
The Epsom riot took place on 17 June 1919 when between 300 and 800 Canadian soldiers rioted and attacked the police station
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JUNE 17, 1579
Explorer Francis Drake landed in a region of present-day California, naming it New Albion and claiming it for England.
Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single
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JUNE 17, 2017
Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.
A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each
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JUNE 17, 1462
Hungarian–Ottoman Wars: Wallachian forces led by Vlad Dracula attacked an Ottoman camp at night in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Sultan Mehmed II.
The Hungarian–Ottoman wars were a series of battles between the Ottoman Empire and the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Following the Byzantine Civil
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JUNE 17, 1631
Mumtaz Mahal (pictured), wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth; Jahan spent the next seventeen years constructing her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor,
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JUNE 17, 2015
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people during a prayer service.
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense
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JUNE 17, 1900
Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and
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JUNE 17, 1397
The kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway formed the Kalmar Union, a personal union under Eric of Pomerania.
The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From
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JUNE 17, 1913
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River
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JUNE 17, 1940
Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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JUNE 17, 1963
Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), commonly known as Saigon, is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 10 million in 2023.
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JUNE 17, 1952
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
The period in the history of Guatemala between the coups against Jorge Ubico in 1944 and Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 is known
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JUNE 17, 1861
American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movements of troops by train.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in
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JUNE 17, 1795
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) fended off a numerically superior French Navy fleet.
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
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