Day In History
This Day in History
Today: June 8, 2026
218
Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.[1]
452
Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.[2]
793
Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.[3]
1042
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.[4]
1191
Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning the Third Crusade.
1663
Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.[5]
1772
Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.[6]
1776
American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1783
Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789
James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
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