WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. JUNE
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Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. (10. June 671)

Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. (10. June 1190)

The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire. (10. June 1329)

Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark. (10. June 1523)

Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice. (10. June 1539)

Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt. (10. June 1619)

Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands. (10. June 1624)

Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". (10. June 1692)

Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel. (10. June 1719)

A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China. (10. June 1786)

The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo. (10. June 1793)

French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship. (10. June 1793)

First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States. (10. June 1805)

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place. (10. June 1829)

Myall Creek massacre: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered. (10. June 1838)

The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate. (10. June 1854)

American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia. (10. June 1861)

American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads - Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi. (10. June 1864)

Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. (10. June 1871)

League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece. (10. June 1878)

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