What happened on 11 June?

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

1. 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great Alexander dies in Babylon aged 32; his empire fragments among his generals (the Diadochi).
2. 1147 Eleanor of Aquitaine joins the Second Crusade Queen Eleanor accompanies husband Louis VII on crusade; later marries Henry II of England.
3. 1898 Hundred Days' Reform Brief programme of Qing modernisation under the Guangxu Emperor; crushed by Cixi.
4. 1727 Reign of George II Reign of George II (1727-1760) as monarch of England (later Britain/UK).
5. 1938 Battle of Wuhan Major battle in early Second Sino-Japanese War.
6. 1144 Birth of Gothic architecture at Saint-Denis Abbot Suger's rebuilt choir at Saint-Denis introduces the pointed arch, rib vault and stained glass of the Gothic style.
7. 1963 Self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc A Buddhist monk burns himself to death in Saigon to protest religious persecution, an image that shocked the world.
8. 2020 GPT-3 released OpenAI's 175B-parameter language model.
9. 1509 Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon Henry weds his late brother Arthur's widow at Greenwich, six weeks after his accession. The 24-year marriage produces only one surviving child, Mary, and ends in the annulment that
10. 1776 Born: John Constable English landscape painter who looked closely at Suffolk and East Anglia.
11. 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial released Spielberg's family film about a stranded alien; defining film of childhood for a generation.