| 1128 | | Battle of S. Mamede: Pr. Afonso of Portugal defeats his mother Queen Theresa, overthrowing her regency |
| 1298 | | Jews massacred at Ifhausen, Austria |
| 1314 | | Battle of Bannockburn: Robert the Bruce liberates Scotland from the English |
| 1322 | | Jews are expelled from France for the third time |
| 1396 | | Crusaders under the Count of Nevers reach Vienna, en route to Nicopolis and Constantinople |
| 1397 | | Sultan Bajezid I ransoms Crusaders captured at Nicopolis |
| 1502 | | First meeting between Cesare Borgia & Niccolo Machiavelli, during which the latter arranges for Leonardo da Vinci to serve as chief military engineer for the former |
| 1509 | | Henry VIII is crowned King of England |
| 1540 | | Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves, wife No. 4 |
| 1622 | | Battle of Macau" The Portuguese repulse a Dutch attack on the city |
| 1762 | | Battle of Wilhelmstahl: The Prussians defeat the French |
| 1793 | | France adopts its first republican constitution |
| 1813 | | Battle of Beaver Dam: British and Indians defeat US forces |
| 1817 | | Nationalist outbreak at Macerata, the Papal States |
| 1821 | | Battle of Carabobo: Bolivar defeats Royalists at Caracas |
| 1839 | | Battle of Nizib/Nusaybin: The Egyptians defeat the Ottomans, near the ancient city of Nisibis (northeastern Syria) |
| 1859 | | Battle of San Martino: Sardinians defeat the Austrians |
| 1859 | | Battle of Solferino: The French defeat the Austrians |
| 1861 | | Tennessee becomes 11th state to secede from the Union |
| 1863 | | Gettysburg Campaign: Lee crosses the Potomac |
| 1863 | | William Rosecrans initiates the Tullahoma Campaign, TN |
| 1866 | | Second Battle of Custoza: Austrians defeat the Italians |
| 1898 | | Naval Action off San Juan: US blockaders skirmish with Spanish warships |
| 1898 | | Battle of Las Guasimas, Cuba: US loses 16 kia, Spanish 12 |
| 1914 | | Aged Peter I of Serbia names his son Alexander Prince Regent |
| 1914 | | The German Imperial Navy hosts the Royal Navy to "Fleet Week" at Kiel |
| 1917 | | Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol |
| 1923 | | Pope Pius XI condemns the Franco-Belgian occupation of the Rhur |
| 1940 | | France signs an armistice with Italy |
| 1941 | | Nazis exterminate the entire male population of Gargzdai, Lithuania |
| 1942 | | Japanese submarine 'I-25' shells Port Stevens, Oregon. |
| 1943 | | Subhas Chandra Bose calls for Indian revolution against Britain |
| 1943 | | Emperor Hirohito visits his super-battleship 'Musashi', the biggest white elephant in the imperial fleet |
| 1945 | | Victory parade in Red Square in Moscow -- Learn More |
| 1945 | | Australians liberate Sarawak from the Japanese |
| 1961 | | Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait |
| 1966 | | Period of European Great Power peace following WW II exceeds that which followed WW I |
| 1244 | | Count Henrich I "the Child" of Hesse (1256-1308) |
| 1753 | | William Hull, inept American general in 1812, d. 1825 |
| 1771 | | Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, American gunpowder manufacturer, d. 1834 |
| 1820 | | Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898 |
| 1822 | | Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1891 |
| 1832 | | Edward Harland, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1915 |
| 1842 | | Ambrose Bierce, veteran, satirist ("The Devil's Dictionary"), vanished 1914 |
| 1850 | | Horatio Herbert Kitchener, soldier, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, kia 1916 -- Learn More. |
| 1939 | | Henry Lawrence Garett III, SecNav (1989-92) |
| 1295 | | Lippoo Mannelii, in Siena by partisans of the Velluti family, in vendetta for a murder committed in 1267 |
| 1398 | | Zhu Yuanzhang, 69, the Hongwu Emperor of China (1368-1398) |
| 1445 | | Annibale I Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna(1438-1445), assassinated while leaving church by Battista Canneschi, an agent of the Canetoli & Ghisiliere families, many of whom are promptly lynched by the populace |
| 1497 | | Michael Joseph "An Gof - The Blacksmith" and Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebels, hanged in London |
| 1519 | | Lucrezia Borgia d'Este, 39, bearing her 7th child |
| 1604 | | Edward de Vere, 54, Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier, who wasn't Shakespeare's ghost writer |
| 1908 | | Grover Cleveland, 71, sometime hangman, governor of New York (1883-1885), president (1885-1889, 1893-1897) -- Learn More |