Historical Events
Nelson Sails to Meet the Armada
Jun 8 Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish fleet
Great Siege of Gibraltar
Jun 16 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar which goes on to last 3 years, 7 months and 2 weeks
Capture of Stony Point
Jun 16 US General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British
Famous Deaths
- Jun 7 William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
- Jun 16 Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- Jun 23 Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
- Jun 29 Anton Raphael Mengs, German Bohemian painter and one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, dies at 51
