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What happened on 29 June?
8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
2007
iPhone launched
Apple's smartphone changes the personal-computing landscape.
2014
Rise of ISIS
Islamic State sweeps across northern Iraq and Syria before being slowly rolled back.
1913
Second Balkan War
Bulgaria attacks former allies; loses most territorial gains.
1520
Death of Moctezuma II
The last fully independent Aztec emperor dies in captivity during the Spanish conquest.
1881
Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum
Sudanese Islamist revolt led by Muhammad Ahmad, the self-declared Mahdi; defeated General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 and was finally crushed at Omdurman.
1767
The Townshend Acts tax the colonies
Britain tries taxation by another route: duties on glass, paint, paper and tea imported into America, collected by a new customs board in Boston. The colonies answer with boycotts
1881
Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum begins
Conventional start of Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum.
1958
Pelé wins the World Cup at seventeen
Two goals in the final against Sweden from a teenager nobody outside Brazil had heard of six weeks earlier.
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