🇬🇧 A lamp lighter at work in Kensington, UK, 1930s

27 June 1709: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava in the Great Northern War

27 June 1743: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession.
This was the last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

Thai dancers at a temple in Bangkok, c. 1920s

28 June 1914: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb radical Gavrilo Princip during a visit in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to WWI.

🇬🇧 28 June 1838: Victoria, aged 19, is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Westminster Abbey, London. Her 63 year reign, known as the Victorian era, lasted until her death in 1901.

Delegations gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France to sign the Treaty of Versailles, June 28th, 1919. The Treaty officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.

View of a London slum, 1877

Heavy mortars of Hitler's Army are set in position under cliffs on the French side of the English Channel, at Fecamp, France, in 1940, as Germany occupied France and the low countries

29 June 1767: Parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Act, sponsored by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, which imposed on colonists in British America an import tax on tea and other goods and thus brought some colonists one step closer to revolution.

A street in Jerusalem, c. 1900-1920s

A 13th-century depiction of the battle outside Antioch during the First Crusade in June 1098 from William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer. The result was a rout of the Turkish army by Crusader forces.

Adolf Hitler, Gregor Strasser, Ernst Röhm and Hermann Göring in 1932; Röhm and Strasser would later be killed in the Night of the Long Knives on 30 June 1934, during which Hitler had a number of leading early Nazi party members purged so he could consolidate his power.

Two boys on a Guernsy street soon after the German invasion on June, 30, 1940.
This channel island was the only British soil to be occupied by the Nazis during the war.

Two Mongolian noble women, 1895

1 July 1690: Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II at the Battle of Boyne in Ireland. This turned the tide in the deposed King James's failed attempt to regain the British crown. After the battle, he fled to France, never to return.

Veterans gathered for a reunion on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1913