What happened on 11 June?

13 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 King of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 is the first to combine 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. 1963 Kennedy's civil rights address After the governor of Alabama yields at the University of Alabama, Kennedy tells the nation on television that civil rights is 'a moral issue' and promises the legislation that bec
10. 1509 Marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon Henry weds his late brother Arthur's widow at Greenwich, seven weeks after his accession. The 24-year marriage produces only one surviving child, Mary, and ends in the annulment th
11. 1685 Monmouth Rebellion Charles II's illegitimate Protestant son lands at Lyme Regis on 11 June, is defeated at Sedgemoor on 6 July and beheaded on 15 July.
12. 1776 Born: John Constable English landscape painter who looked closely at Suffolk and East Anglia.
13. 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial released Spielberg's family film about a stranded alien; defining film of childhood for a generation.