User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/June
- 1485 - Matthias Corvinus of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III in his conquest of Austria and makes the city his capital.
- 1813 - The United States Navy gains its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the frigate USS Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence, cries out: "Don't give up the ship!"
- 1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
- 1918 - World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood begins.
- 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends.
- 455 - The Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
- 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
- 1098 – First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
- 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
- 1916 – The Reserve Officer Training Corps is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1969 – Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans.
- 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
- 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
- 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Atoll with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
- 70 AD - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
- 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread Irish Rebellion of 1798 into Munster is defeated.
- 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
- 1508 - War of the League of Cambrai: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice
- 1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
- 1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - United States forces capture Memphis, Tennessee
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious operation in history.
- 1099 - The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops.
- 1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese troops land on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
- 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War: - American invaders are driven back in the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
- 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle
- 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian Field Marshal
- 1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
- 1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China, under Kuomintang administration, recognizes Japanese occupation in Northeast China.
- 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
- 1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1719 - Jacobite rising of 1719: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- 1898 - Spanish–American War: United States Marines land on Cuba.
- 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
- 1945 - World War II: Second Australian Imperial Force units land in Brunei Bay
- 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
- 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
- 1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1970 - Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.
- 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard begins.
- 1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
- 1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
- 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
- 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
- 1995 - French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
- 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
- 1800 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo and re-conquers Italy.
- 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
- 1967 - China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
- 923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
- 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan.
- 1487 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Stoke Field ends the war
- 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
- 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
- 1815 - Napoleonic wars: Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras.
- 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
- 1462 - Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.
- 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - British forces take Breed's Hill outside of Boston with heavy casualties.
- 1863 - Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War
- 1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- 1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France.
- 1429 - Hundred Years' War: French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay.
- 1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
- 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne for a second, and final time
- 1940 - World War II: Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 - World War II: "This was their finest hour" speech by Winston Churchill
- 1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's defeat [[Robert the Bruce]'s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 1807 - Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Philippine Sea.
- 451 - According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
- 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
- 1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1963 - The Moscow–Washington hotline established following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 1621 - An execution of 27 Czech lords on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the battle on the "White Mountain".
- 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
- 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
- 1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
- 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
- 1859 - Italian Independence wars: Battle of Solférino is fought. Witnessed by Henri Dunant, the results were the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross.
- 1864 - Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
- 1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
- 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
- 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
- 1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon invades Russia.
- 1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Sir George Tryon.
- 1898 - Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn: Robert I of Scotland defeats Edward II of England; Edward flees the field and Scotland.
- 1532 - Henry VIII and François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
- 1757 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Plassey - 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
- 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
- 1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut - Austria beats Prussia.
- 972 - Battle of Cedynia, near Cedynia. Polish forces have had their first documented victory.
- 1128 - Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother Teresa and Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
- 1340 - Edward III of England personally leads the navy of England in its destruction of the French fleet in the Battle of Sluys. The French fleet was under the command of Hugues Quiéret and Nicholas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys serving under Egidio Boccanegra. Although both Hue Quiéret and Béhuchet were among the casualties, the mercenaries manage to escape.
- 1859 - Battle of Solferino: Sardinia and France defeat Austria at Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1945 - Moscow Victory Parade.
- 841 - Battle of Fontenay.
- 1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of George Armstrong Custer.
- 1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
- 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
- 1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
- 1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
- 1709 - Great Northern War: Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1759 - Seven Years' War: James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
- 1905 - Mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin.
- 1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
- 1389 - Ottoman forces crush the Serbian armies in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
- 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine begins.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.
- 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Irish Free State forces.
- 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed by Nur ad-Din Zangi at the Battle of Inab.
- 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1651 - The Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
- 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl.
- 1944 - The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.