Day In History
This Day in History
Today: June 22, 2026
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Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.[1]
-168
Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.[2]
813
Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.[3]
910
The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
1527
Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
1593
Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
1633
The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1774
The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
1783
A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1793
Haitian Revolution: The Battle of Cap-Français ends with French Republican troops and black slave insurgents capturing the city.[4]
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