| 7 June 1329 | Scotland [births and deaths] | Robert I the Bruce, King of Scotland 1306–29, who freed Scotland from English rule, winning a decisive victory at Bannockburn (1314), dies in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (c. 55). |
| 7 June 1494 | Spain, Portugal [treaties] | Under the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal amend the earlier papal rulings on the division of the New World. Portugal is to have all lands east of a longitudinal line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde, and Spain is to have the rest. |
| 7–24 June 1520 | England, France [political events] | King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet in ostentation at the ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’ between Gravelines and Ardres in Picardy, near Calais, France, and sign the marriage contract for their children Mary Tudor and the dauphin Francis. |
| 7 June 1546 | England, France [treaties] | The Peace of Ardres ends England's war with France and Scotland. The northern French port of Boulogne is to remain English for eight years and then be restored to France; King Francis I of France undertakes to pay King Henry VIII of England a 94,736-crown pension and 50,000 crowns to his successors. |
| 7 June 1557 | England, France, Spain, Papal States, Italy [Habsburg–Valois Wars (1494–1559)] | Queen Mary I of England declares war on France, the enemy of her husband King Philip II of Spain; Pope Paul IV deprives the liberal imperialist Cardinal Reginald Pole of his office as papal legate in England. |
| 7 June 1848 | France [births and deaths] | Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist painter, born in Paris, France (–1903). |
| 7 June 1866 | Prussia, Austrian Empire [Seven Weeks War (1866)] | Prussian troops march into the Austrian-ruled duchy of Holstein. The Prussian chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, wants to provoke war with Austria and end its influence in Germany. |
| 7 June 1898 | Austria-Hungary [births and deaths] | Imre Nagy, independent communist and premier of Hungary 1953–55 who tries to gain Hungary's independence from the Soviet Union, born in Kaposvár, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (–1958). |
| 7 June 1921 | Romania, Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes [political events] | An alliance is made between Romania and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, completing Romania's entry into the ‘Little Entente’ (a defensive alliance of eastern European nations). |
| 7 June 1946 | UK [television] | Regular television broadcasts by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which have been interrupted for almost seven years by the war, are revived in the UK: at this stage there are fewer than 12,000 viewers. |
| 7 June 1954 | England [births and deaths] | Alan Mathison Turing, English mathematician who pioneered computer theory and computer processes, dies in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England (41). |
| 7 June 1982 | USA [houses] | Elvis Presley's home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, opens to the public. |
| 7 June 1998 | UK [popular music] | British pop musicians Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, the three surviving ex-Beatles, make their first public appearance together for 30 years at the memorial service for McCartney's wife, Linda, who died of cancer in April. |
| 7 June 2001 | Ireland [international organizations] | European Union (EU) plans for future enlargement are thrown into confusion as voters in a referendum in the Republic of Ireland (a member state) reject the Treaty of Nice, which was signed by the governments of the existing EU countries in December 2000. |
| 7 June 2001 | UK [elections] | In a general election in the UK, the Labour Party retains power in its second consecutive landslide victory. Labour wins 413 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservative Party 166, the Liberal Democrats 52 and others 28. The Ulster Unionist Party loses three of its nine seats to the hardline Democratic Unionists. Voter turnout is only 59%, lower than at any time since 1918. |
