| 24 June 1167 | Holy Roman Empire, Papal States, Italy [wars] | The Holy Roman Frederick I Barbarossa camps outside Rome; he subsequently forces an entry, Pope Alexander III flees to Benevento, and the antipope Paschal III is installed. |
| 24 June 1179 | Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany [political events] | Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, is put under the ban of the Holy Roman Empire for failing to appear before Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa to answer charges of oppressive rule in Saxony. |
| 24 June 1204 | France, England, Normandy, Gascony, France [wars] | With the fall of the Norman capital Rouen, King Philip II's conquest of Normandy is complete; of his French possessions King John of England retains only Gascony and the Channel Islands (originally part of the duchy of Normandy). |
| 24 June 1314 | Scotland, England [Anglo–Scottish Wars 1296–1371)] | Robert I the Bruce, King of Scotland, inflicts a disastrous defeat on King Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn and so completes his expulsion of the English from Scotland. |
| 24 June 1340 | Flanders, France, England [Hundred Years War (1337–1453)] | The English fleet wins a naval victory over the French at Sluys, Flanders. |
| 24 June 1358 | France [revolution] | The Jacquerie peasant revolt in France is savagely suppressed. |
| 24 June 1398 | China [births and deaths] | Hongwu or Hung-wu, Chinese emperor 1368–98, founder of the Ming dynasty, dies (69). |
| 24 June 1519 | Italy [births and deaths] | Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesare Borgia, Italian noblewoman, and a central figure in the notorious Borgia family, dies in Ferrara (39). |
| 24 June 1527 | Sweden [political events] | At the Swedish Diet (legislative assembly) of Västerås, King Gustavus I Vasa, hard-pressed by a peasants' revolt in Dalarnia and the financial demands of the city of Lübeck, forces through a reformation of the Swedish church; its privileges are abolished, the existing structure is retained, and it is formally placed under royal control. Toleration is granted to anyone preaching the ‘Word of God’. |
| 24 June 1535 | Holy Roman Empire [wars] | The coalition of nobles besieging Münster, aided by information from deserters, assaults the city and ends Anabaptist resistance in a night of carnage. The mutilated body of the revolutionary Anabaptist leader Jan Boekelszoon (John of Leiden) hangs from the cathedral spire, after his execution by the restored bishop Franz von Waldeck in 1536, until 1848. |
| 24 June 1821 | Venezuela, Colombia, Spain [wars] | The South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar ensures the independence of Venezuela from Spain by defeating the Spanish army of General Miguel de la Torre at Carabobo, near Caracas. A subsequent congress of the republic of Great Colombia (to which Venezuela is now added) at Cúcuta, Colombia, reorganizes the administration of the new republic, constitutionally limiting Bolívar's powers as president. |
| 24 June 1859 | Austrian Empire, France, Sardinia-Piedmont, Italy [wars] | Austrian forces, opposing the unification of Italy, are defeated in a decisive battle at Solferino, near Verona, Italy, by French and Piedmontese forces. |
| 24 June 1894 | France [terrorism] | President Marie-François-Sadi Carnot of France is assassinated at Lyon, France, by an Italian anarchist and is succeeded by Jean Casimir-Périer. |
| 24 June 1922 | Germany [political events] | The Jewish German foreign minister Walther Rathenau is murdered by anti-Semitic nationalists. |
| 24 June 1928 | France [banking and finance] | The French franc is again devalued to make the national debt easier to pay as France's economic difficulties continue. |
| 24 June 1954 | USA [roads] | New York State Thruway is opened, a 894-km/559-mi long highway stretching from New York City to Buffalo, New York. |
| 24 June–6 July 1968 | UK, Australia, USA [tennis] | At the first ‘open’ Wimbledon tennis championships in London, England, the singles titles are won by Rod Laver of Australia and Billie Jean King of the USA, who win £2,000 and £750 respectively. |
| 24 June–14 August 1971 | UK, New Zealand [rugby] | The British Lions win a rugby union Test series in New Zealand for the first time. |
| 24 June 1992 | USA [legislation] | The US Supreme Court opens the way for damage suits by cigarette smokers against the tobacco companies when it rules that the warning labels on cigarette packages do not exempt the manufacturers from lawsuits. |
