^B{^#!16!24 June^N! Feast day of St John the Baptist, St Bartholomew of Farne, St Simplicius of Autun, and St Ralph of Bourges.
^B{1245 ^B}Pope Innocent sent John de Plano Carpinis, a friar minor, to the court of the Great Khan, at Karakorum; this embassy led to the establishment of Christian missions in China until c. 1368. ^B{1277 ^B}English King Edward I began his first Welsh campaign following Llewelyn's refusal to do homage. ^B{1314 ^B}Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II at Bannockburn and so completed his expulsion of the English from Scotland. ^B{1535 ^B}Charles V leads an expedition to conquer Tunis from Barbarossa, with a fleet commanded by Andrea Doria. Charles restored the Bey, Mulai Hassan (deposed by the Turks in 1534) and completed the Spanish conquest of the North African coast (begun in 1494). ^B{1559 ^B}The Elizabethan Prayer Book was first used. ^B{1812 ^B}Napoleon crossed the River Niemen and entered Russian territory. ^B{1917 ^B}The Russian Black Sea fleet mutinied at Sebastopol. ^B{1956 ^B}Colonel Nasser was elected President of Egypt.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Theodore Beza, French religious reformer, ^B{1519^B}; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, English explorer, ^B{1532^B}; St John of the Cross (Juan de Yepez y Alvarez), ^B{1542^B}; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, ^B{1650^B}; Horatio, Lord Kitchener, British soldier, ^B{1850^B}; William Penney. British physicist, ^B{1909^B}; Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver, ^B{1911^B}; Fred Hoyle, English astronomer, ^B{1915^B}; Claude Chabrol, French film director, ^B{1930^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Ferdinand I, king of Castile and Leon, ^B{1065^B}; Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara, ^B{1519^B}; John Partridge, English astrologer, ^B{1715^B}; Stephen Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the US, ^B{1908^B}; Rex Warner, British novelist, ^B{1986^B}. ^B}
