12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’
12/06/2026
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this ...
11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens
11/06/2026
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed ...
10th June 1605: False Dmitry I enters Moscow and is recognised as tsar following the death of Boris Godunov
10/06/2026
False Dmitry asserted that he was Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. With support from Polish nobles, mercenaries, and anti-Godunov factions, he entered Russian territory from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ...
9th June 1815: ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
09/06/2026
The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foundations for the First World ...
8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria
08/06/2026
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British ...
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