| 11 June 1509 | England, Spain [political events] | King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. |
| 11 June 1572 | England [births and deaths] | Ben Jonson, a leading English dramatist, lyric poet, and critic of the Jacobean age, whose works include The Alchemist (1610), born in London, England (–1637). |
| 11 June 1645 | North America [media and communication] | The first news publication in the American colonies is a seven-page pamphlet printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 11 June 1727 | Hanover [births and deaths] | George I, elector of Hanover 1698–1727 and first Hanoverian king of Great Britain 1714–27, dies in Osnabrück, Hanover (now Germany) (67). |
| 11 June 1727 | Hanover, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, UK [political events] | Following the death of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland, and elector of Hanover, at Osnabrück, Hanover, he is succeeded by his son, George II. |
| 11 June 1776 | England [births and deaths] | John Constable, English landscape painter, born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England (–1837). |
| 11 June 1895 | Togoland, UK, Transvaal [colonization] | Britain annexes Togoland in order to block the Transvaal's access to the sea. |
| 11 June–16 September 1898 | China [law and government] | Emperor Guangxu initiates China's ‘hundred days of reform’ under the guidance of Kang Youwei in response to the interest being shown in China by the Western powers. |
| 11 June 1930 | [transport] | The first bathysphere, a spherical steel craft for undersea exploration, built by US zoologist William Beebe and US engineer Otis Barton, descends to 435 m/1,428 ft. |
| 11 June 1947 | USA [World War II (1939–45)] | Sugar rationing comes to an end in the USA. |
| 11 June 1959 | USA [fiction] | The US Postmaster General bans the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence from the mail (meaning in effect that it cannot be distributed in the USA), citing its erotic passages. |
| 11 June 1964 | South Africa [crime and punishment] | At the end of the ‘Rivonia trial’ in South Africa (begun 10 October 1963), Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment, while eight other defendants receive lesser sentences, and one is discharged. |
| 11 June 1979 | USA [births and deaths] | John Wayne, US film actor who usually starred in Westerns and war films, dies in Los Angeles, California (72). |
| 11 June 1987 | UK [elections] | Margaret Thatcher leads the Conservative Party to a third consecutive win in the British general elections. |
| 11 June 1999 | UK [economic conditions] | British chancellor Gordon Brown denounces the burden of debt for developing countries and pledges a $50 billion reduction from Britain, with further reductions to follow. |
| 11 June 2001 | USA [terrorism] | Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted killing 168 people in the Oklahoma bomb atrocity in 1995, is executed by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Indiana. |
