Occult:This month in history/June
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- 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)
- 8 June - Occult horror film Hereditary is released in the United States. (2018)
- 10 June - Accused witch Bridget Bishop is executed by hanging. (1692)
- 10 June - Psychic medium Hélène Smith dies in Switzerland. (1929)
- 11 June - Italian poet Dante Alighieri fights in the Battle of Campaldino. (1289)
- 11 June - The U.S. Supreme Court grants practices associated with Santería protection under the First Amendment. (1993)
- 12 June - The occult horror film Rosemary's Baby is released in the United States. (1968)
- 13 June - Author W.B. Yeats is born. (1865)
- 13 June - British Wiccan and author Gerald Gardner is born. (1884)
- 15 June - An important Solar eclipse is mentioned in an ancient Assyrian text. (763 BC)
- 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 in an accidental explosion. (1952)
- 21 June - International Day of Yoga as established by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 22 June - The Inquisition finds Galileo Galilei guilty of heresy. (1633)
- 24 June - Traditional date of the Summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.
- 25 June - Occult horror film The Omen opens in the U.S. and Canada. (1976)
- 25 June - French occultist and author Marie Anne Lenormand dies in Paris. (1843)
- 26 June - Richard III becomes King of England. (1483)