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16 June| 16 June 1373 | England, Portugal [treaties] | Under the Treaty of London, England and Portugal make a perpetual alliance. | | 16 June 1426 | Bohemia, Germany, Holy Roman Empire [wars] | The Hussites, led by Prokop the Great, destroy a German crusading army at Usti, Bohemia: the third anti-Hussite crusade fails. | | 16 June 1487 | England [Wars of the Roses (1455–85)] | King Henry VII of England defeats the army of the pretender, Lambert Simnel, who has marched from a landing in Lancashire to the battle site at East Stoke, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. Simnel's major backer, the Earl of Lincoln, is killed in this last battle of the Wars of the Roses. | | 16 June 1654 | Sweden [administration] | Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and is succeeded by Charles X. She subsequently converts to Catholicism on 3 November 1655. | | 16 June 1722 | England, France [births and deaths] | John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, English general famed for his victories over the French at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and Oudenaarde (1708), dies in Windsor, England (72). | | 16 June 1746 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Sardinia, France, Spain, Italy [War of the Austrian Succession (1740–46)] | Victorious at the Battle of Piacenza, Austria and Sardinia are able to expel the French and Spanish forces from the Italian kingdoms of Lombardy and Sardinia. | | 16 June 1779 | UK, Spain, France [American Revolutionary War (1775–83)] | Spain declares war on Britain, following an undertaking by France to assist in recovering Gibraltar and Florida. Spanish forces begin a siege of Gibraltar. | | 16 June 1891 | Canada [administration] | John Abbot becomes premier of Canada following the death of Sir John Macdonald, premier since 1878 and the force behind making Canada a dominion. | | 16 June 1922 | Ireland, UK [elections] | Elections in the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) give a majority to the Pro-Treaty (Anglo-Irish Treaty) candidates (58, against 35 anti-Treaty Republicans); anti-Treaty Republicans continue to oppose the new government, with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) taking large areas under its control. | | 16 June 1963 | USSR [space exploration] | Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, is launched into a three-day orbital flight aboard Vostok 6, to study the problem of weightlessness. | | 16 June 2003 | England [physiology] | Labelled the UK's first ‘designer baby’, James Whitaker is born by Caesarean section in Sheffield, England, the first product of genetic-matching IVF treatment to be born in Britain. The procedure, performed in the USA after the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority refused to sanction it in August 2002, gives the parents hope of saving their other son from a rare form of anaemia. |
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