What happened on 2 June?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1946 Italian Republic founded Italy votes to end the monarchy and establish the republic.
2. 1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II First televised British coronation; vast UK and Commonwealth audience watches the 27-year-old queen crowned.
3. 1692 The court of Oyer and Terminer With the jails filling, the new governor commissions a special court that makes the disaster systematic: it admits spectral evidence — the accusers' visions of the defendants' spir
4. 1863 Tubman's Combahee Ferry Raid Tubman guides Union gunboats up a mined South Carolina river and frees more than 700 enslaved people in a night — the first US military raid led by a woman.
5. 1793 Paris crowds purge the Girondins Eighty thousand armed sans-culottes surround the National Convention and force the arrest of twenty-nine Girondin deputies — the moderate republicans who had led France into war. T
6. 455 Vandal sack of Rome Vandals under Geiseric loot Rome for two weeks; word 'vandalism' descends from the event.
7. 1857 Born: Edward Elgar English composer of the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance marches.
8. 1840 Born: Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet of Wessex; author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.