What happened on 14 June?

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

1. 1645 Battle of Naseby Fairfax and Cromwell's New Model Army destroys the main royalist army; effective end of the first English Civil War.
2. 1946 Born: Donald Trump 45th and 47th US President; populist Republican and disruptive political figure.
3. 1866 Austro-Prussian War Bismarck provokes war with Austria over Schleswig-Holstein; Prussia's victory at Königgrätz expels Austria from German affairs.
4. 1811 Born: Harriet Beecher Stowe American novelist; author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
5. 1381 The Tower falls — Sudbury beheaded While the king parleys at Mile End — granting charters of freedom with astonishing readiness — rebels walk into an undefended Tower of London and drag out Archbishop-Chancellor Sud
6. 1951 First US commercial computer (UNIVAC I) First general-purpose commercial computer produced in the United States is delivered.
7. 1928 Born: Che Guevara Argentine doctor turned guerrilla leader of the Cuban Revolution, killed in Bolivia.
8. 2017 Grenfell Tower fire 72 die in tower-block fire in west London; cladding scandal triggers years of inquiry and policy upheaval.
9. 1098 The Holy Lance at Antioch Starving inside newly taken Antioch with a fresh Muslim army outside, the crusaders dig beneath the cathedral where a Provençal visionary says the Lance that pierced Christ lies —
10. 1807 Battle of Friedland Napoleon decisively defeats the Russian army; leads to the Treaty of Tilsit and a partition of Europe between France and Russia.
11. 1800 Battle of Marengo Napoleon's narrow victory over the Austrians in northern Italy consolidates his political power as First Consul.
12. 1919 Alcock and Brown's transatlantic flight The first nonstop transatlantic aeroplane flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland, eight years before Lindbergh's solo crossing.
13. 2024 Euro 2024 in Germany UEFA Euro 2024 hosted by Germany; Spain win.
14. 1325 Ibn Battuta sets out on the hajj A 21-year-old law graduate leaves Tangier for Mecca alone on a donkey — the start of 29 years and some 120,000 kilometres of travel.
15. 1921 Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending A solo violin spirals upward over a hushed orchestra, following George Meredith's poem about a skylark — sketched before the First World War and completed after it, which is why an
16. 1822 Babbage proposes the Difference Engine Exasperated by errors in printed mathematical tables, Babbage proposes a machine to calculate and print them by steam; with government money he begins building it, but it is never
17. 1998 Jordan's 'Last Shot' With seconds left in Game 6 in Utah, Jordan steals the ball, crosses over Bryon Russell and hits the shot that wins the Bulls' sixth title — his last as a Bull.