WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. JUNE
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Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. (12. June 1381)

An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians. (12. June 1418)

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau. (12. June 1429)

Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto. (12. June 1560)

First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13. (12. June 1653)

England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam). (12. June 1665)

French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences. (12. June 1758)

American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged. (12. June 1775)

The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted. (12. June 1776)

Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch. (12. June 1798)

The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established. (12. June 1860)

American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south. (12. June 1864)

78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland. (12. June 1889)

Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. (12. June 1898)

New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200. (12. June 1899)

At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. (12. June 1922)

Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. (12. June 1939)

The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York. (12. June 1939)

World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. (12. June 1940)

Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. (12. June 1942)