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• 1128 - Battle of St.Mamede , near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards independence in 1143.
• 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
• 1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
• 1441This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD Events June 24 Eton College founded Revolt in Yucatan capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states Deaths July 12 - Eton CollegeEton College is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-paying secondary school) for boys in Eton, Berkshire near Windsor in England. It boards approximately 1,200 boys between the ages of 13 and 18 who enjoy some outstanding facilities at a cost of founded.
• 1497Events May 10 Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cadiz for his first voyage to the New World. May 13 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. May 20 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Mathew looking for a route to the west (othe - John CabotGiovanni Caboto (c. 1450 1499), known as John Cabot in the English language, was an Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of Canada, or at least the region that would become that nation. He was born Giovanni Cab lands on North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, either at NewfoundlandThis is about the island in Canada. For the Canadian province of Newfoundland see Newfoundland and Labrador. For other meanings of Newfoundland see Newfoundland (disambiguation). Newfoundland is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, an or Cape Breton; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
• 1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
• 1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
• 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
• 1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
• 1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
• 1692 - Kingston, Jamaica founded.
• 1793 - First republican constitution in France adopted.
• 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
• 1859 - Battle of Solferino ( Battle of the Three Sovereigns ). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
• 1861 - Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
• 1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français .
• 1894 - The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
• 1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
• 1910 - Japan invades Korea.
• 1913 - Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1915 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago. 800 people die.
• 1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract.
• 1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1918 - The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
• 1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam ( Thailand).
• 1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice.
• 1941 - The Germans capture Vilna, Brest-Litovsk, and Kaunas.
• 1946 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
• 1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
• 1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obsecnity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
• 1974 - The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
• 1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
• 1983 - Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
• 1983 - Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.
• 1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
• 1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 400 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
• 1999 - The guitar which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.