| 22 June 1533 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Hungary [political events] | Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria and the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent conclude an interim peace in Hungary; the division of the country is to reflect the status quo, with Ferdinand taking the area west of the River Danube and the Ottoman ally and rival claimant to the throne, Janos Zápolya, having the rest; both are to pay tribute to Suleiman, who also vetoes future arrangements about Hungary. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is excluded from the treaty, and continues his war against the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean. |
| 22–30 June 1600 | Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, United Netherlands [Dutch Revolt (1598–1609)] | Count Maurice of Nassau leads an army to the United Netherlands enclave of Ostend (Oostende) in Flanders, for an offensive against Dunkirk (Dunkerque) and Nieupoort in the Spanish Netherlands; Archduke Albert's Army of Flanders defeats him before he attacks Nieupoort (30 June). When the Flemish fail to rise in support, Maurice retreats to Holland. |
| 22 June 1805 | Genoa [births and deaths] | Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary and founder of Young Italy, a secret revolutionary society which strove for Italian unity, born in Genoa, Italy (–1872). |
| 22 June 1894 | Dahomey, France [colonization] | The protectorate of Dahomey is proclaimed a French colony. |
| 22 June 1906 | Austria-Hungary [births and deaths] | Billy Wilder, Academy Award-winning film director and scriptwriter, born (–2002). |
| 22 June 1920 | Greece, Anatolia [wars] | Greece, with the support of Britain, invades Anatolia (modern Turkey) in order to force it to accept the peace dictated by the Allies. |
| 22 June 1940 | France, Germany [treaties] | France signs an armistice with Germany during World War II and is divided into two zones. The Germans occupy northern and southwestern France, and a so-called autonomous ‘Vichy’ French state is to control the remaining third of the country. |
| 22 June 1941 | USSR [World War II (1939–45)] | Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, begins. |
| 22 June 1944 | USA [legislation] | The US president Franklin D Roosevelt signs the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, also known as the GI Bill of Rights. The act guarantees veterans a wide range of benefits, including money for college tuition and low-cost home mortgages. |
| 22 June 1969 | USA, England [births and deaths] | Judy Garland, US singer and actor, dies in London, England (47). |
| 22 June 1987 | USA [births and deaths] | Fred Astaire, US dancer who starred in many musical comedies with Ginger Rogers, dies in Los Angeles, California (88). |
| 22 June 2002 | Iran [natural disasters] | About 230 people are killed and some 12,000 made homeless as an earthquake hits Qazvin province in north-west Iran. |
