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[[File:Urbain Grandier.jpg| | [[File:Urbain Grandier.jpg|175px|thumb|Urbain Grandier being accused of witchcraft]] | ||
* '''2 June''' - Trial of '''[[Urbain Grandier]]''' for [[witchcraft]] and adultery begins. ''(1630)'' | * '''2 June''' - Trial of '''[[Urbain Grandier]]''' for [[witchcraft]] and adultery begins. ''(1630)'' | ||
* '''2 June''' - The '''[[Salem Witch Trials]]''' commence. ''(1692)'' | * '''2 June''' - The '''[[Salem Witch Trials]]''' commence. ''(1692)'' | ||
Revision as of 02:55, 6 December 2022
- 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)
- 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)