WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. JUNE
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The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated. (1. June 193)

King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen. (1. June 1204)

Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. (1. June 1215)

Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León. (1. June 1252)

Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. (1. June 1298)

Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. (1. June 1495)

Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. (1. June 1533)

Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. (1. June 1535)

The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. (1. June 1648)

Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities. (1. June 1649)

Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1. June 1660)

In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War. (1. June 1670)

The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. (1. June 1679)

Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance. (1. June 1779)

Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States. (1. June 1792)

The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. (1. June 1794)

Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States. (1. June 1796)

War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom. (1. June 1812)

James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!" (1. June 1813)

Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. (1. June 1815)

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