On this day: June 7

Events on June 7

• 421 Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire). Wikipedia
• 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. Wikipedia
• 1640 Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers riot against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War. Wikipedia
• 1654 Louis XIV is crowned King of France. Wikipedia
• 1776 American Revolution: Richard Henry Lee proposes the "Lee Resolution" to the Second Continental Congress, with the motion being seconded by John Adams and leading to the United States Declaration of Independence. Wikipedia
• 1788 French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops. Wikipedia
• 1810 The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina. Wikipedia
• 1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. Wikipedia
• 1862 The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade. Wikipedia
• 1892 Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. Wikipedia
• 1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. Wikipedia
• 1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland. Wikipedia
• 1917 First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines. Wikipedia
• 1917 World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops. Wikipedia
• 1919 Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people. Wikipedia
• 1929 The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question". Wikipedia
• 1929 The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory. Wikipedia
• 1948 Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. Wikipedia
• 1965 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy". Wikipedia
• 1967 Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. Wikipedia
• 1977 Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. Wikipedia
• 1981 The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. Wikipedia
• 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. Wikipedia
• 1989 Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. Wikipedia
• 2000 The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. Wikipedia

Born on June 7

• 1502 John III of Portugal (died 1557) Wikipedia
• 1770 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828) Wikipedia
• 1837 Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1862 Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947) Wikipedia
• 1896 Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) Wikipedia
• 1896 Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958) Wikipedia
• 1909 Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994) Wikipedia
• 1909 Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974) Wikipedia
• 1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1929 John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020) Wikipedia
• 1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor Wikipedia
• 1952 Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor Wikipedia
• 1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana Wikipedia
• 1970 Cafu, Brazilian footballer Wikipedia
• 1972 Karl Urban, New Zealand actor Wikipedia
• 1974 Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host Wikipedia
• 1975 Allen Iverson, American basketball player Wikipedia
• 1990 Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model Wikipedia
• 1991 Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress Wikipedia

Died on June 7

• 555 Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500) Wikipedia
• 1329 Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274) Wikipedia
• 1594 Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525) Wikipedia
• 1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787) Wikipedia
• 1843 Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770) Wikipedia
• 1937 Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911) Wikipedia
• 1954 Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912) Wikipedia
• 1966 Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886) Wikipedia
• 1967 Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893) Wikipedia
• 1970 E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879) Wikipedia
• 1978 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897) Wikipedia
• 1980 Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891) Wikipedia
• 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (born 1966) Wikipedia
• 2015 Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Antonio Maria Gianelli Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Colmán of Dromore Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Gottschalk Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Landulf of Yariglia (Asti) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Meriasek Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Paul I of Constantinople Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Robert of Newminster Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner (Armenian Apostolic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile) Wikipedia
• Flag Day (Peru) Wikipedia
• Journalist Day (Argentina) Wikipedia
• Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia) Wikipedia
• Birthday of Prince Joachim (Denmark) Wikipedia
• Sette Giugno (Malta) Wikipedia
• Union Dissolution Day (Independence Day of Norway) Wikipedia
• Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 7” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.