Difference between revisions of "Occult:This month in history/June"

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Urbain Grandier being accused by nuns of witchcraft

2 June - Trial of Urbain Grandier for witchcraft and adultery begins. (1630)
2 June - The Salem Witch Trials commence. (1692)
4 June - Occultist and author Travis McHenry is born. (1980)
5 June - The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (1983)
9 June - Nero commits suicide, after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. (68)
10 June - Accused witch Bridget Bishop is executed by hanging. (1692)
10 June - Psychic medium Hélène Smith dies in Switzerland. (1929)
15 June - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1648)
15 June - New Orleans voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau dies. (1881)
16 June - Vlad the Impaler leads a daring night attack against Sultan Mehmed II near Târgoviște. (1462)
17 June - Michael Servetus is convicted of heresy and sentenced to death by burning. (1552)
17 June - Occultist engineer Jack Parsons dies. (1952)
22 June - The Inquisition finds Galileo Galilei guilty of heresy. (1633)
26 June - Richard III becomes King of England. (1483)

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 * '''17 June''' - '''[[Michael Servetus]]''' is convicted of [[heresy]] and sentenced to [[death by burning]]. ''(1552)''
 * '''17 June''' - [[Occultist]] engineer '''[[Jack Parsons]]''' dies. ''(1952)''
-* '''18 June''' - '''[[Empress Dowager Cixi]]''' of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families. ''(1900)''
 * '''22 June''' - The [[Inquisition]] finds '''[[Galileo Galilei]]''' guilty of [[heresy]]. ''(1633)''
 * '''26 June''' - '''[[Richard III]]''' becomes King of England. ''(1483)''