Day In History
This Day in History
Today: June 1, 2026
1252
Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.[1]
1298
Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.[2]
1495
A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.[3]
1533
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.[4]
1535
Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.[5]
1649
Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1670
In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1676
Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
1679
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
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