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19 June| 19 June 936 | France [political events] | Louis IV d'Outremer, son of Charles III the Simple, is recalled from exile in England by Count Hugh the Great, the Capetian Duke of the Franks, and crowned king of France following the death of King Raoul. | | 19 June 1312 | England [political events] | The banished Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, who has returned to England, is captured and killed by the earls of Lancaster and Warwick. His death causes a split among King Edward II of England's baronial opponents. | | 19 June 1502 | England, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | King Henry VII of England agrees to pay the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I £10,000 towards his proposed crusade in return for the denial of asylum to English rebels, particularly the Earl of Suffolk, a Yorkist claimant to the throne (confirmed 28 July). | | 19 June 1566 | Scotland, England [births and deaths] | James VI of Scotland (1567–1625) and I of England (1603–1625), son of Mary Queen of Scots, born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland (–1625). | | 19 June 1623 | France [births and deaths] | Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist who founded the theory of probability, and invented the first digital calculator, the syringe, and hydraulic press, born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (–1662). | | 19 June 1631 | Mantua, France, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Savoy [treaties] | The Treaty of Cherasco ends the War of the Mantuan Succession. French and imperialist armies agree to leave Italy; the French candidate Charles, Duke of Nevers, becomes Duke of Mantua; Savoy wins part of the duchy of Montferrat. By a secret agreement with Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, France is to obtain Pinerolo and the Duke is betrothed to the sister of the French king Louis XIII; France thus gains a foothold in Italy. The treaty represents a great diplomatic triumph for Cardinal Richelieu. | | 19 June 1669 | Poland [administration] | Michal Wisniowiecki, a Lithuanian, is elected king of Poland after a nine-month struggle over the succession. His victory prevents French attempts to extend their influence in Poland. | | 19 June 1846 | USA [baseball] | In what is regarded as the first real baseball game (played under the rules modified in 1845 by the Knickerbocker Club) the Knickerbocker Club play the New York Club at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey. | | 19 June 1903 | [births and deaths] | Lou Gehrig, US professional baseball player, born in New York City (–1941). | | 19 June 1970 | UK [administration] | The British prime minister Harold Wilson resigns following the general election and Edward Heath forms a Conservative ministry, with Sir Alec Douglas-Home as foreign secretary, Iain Macleod as chancellor of the Exchequer, and Reginald Maudling as home secretary. | | 19 June 1999 | UK [everyday life] | Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones at St George's Chapel, Windsor, England. The Queen gives them the titles Earl and Countess of Wessex. |
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