Editing June 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; The [[Colony of Virginia]] gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".<ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=48|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref> 
*[[1615]] &ndash; The first [[Récollet]] [[missionaries]] arrive at [[Quebec City]], from [[Rouen]], France.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Americas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3akSAAAAIAAJ|year=1948|publisher=Academy of American Franciscan History|page=7}}</ref>
*[[1676]] &ndash; [[Franco-Dutch War]]: [[Kingdom of France|France]] ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the [[Battle of Palermo]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Parker|title=Collins Atlas of Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UugZAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-716639-8|page=65}}</ref>
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Bridget Bishop]] is the first person to be [[Salem witch trials|tried for witchcraft]] in [[Salem, Massachusetts]]; she was found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rosenthal|first=Bernard|title=Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1993|isbn=9780521558204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNYyMV_huGAC|page=67}}</ref>
*[[1763]] &ndash; [[Pontiac's Rebellion]]: At what is now [[Mackinaw City, Michigan]], [[Chippewa]]s capture [[Fort Michilimackinac]] by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of [[lacrosse]], then chasing a ball into the fort.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunbar|first1=Willis F.|last2=May|first2=George S.|title=Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State|location=Grand Rapids, Mich.|publisher=W.B. Eerdmans|date=1995|isbn=9780802870551|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqGWEAnByeMC|pages=67–68}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Intolerable Acts]]: The [[Quartering Act|Quartering Act of 1774]] is enacted, allowing a governor in [[Thirteen Colonies|colonial America]] to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mays|first=Terry M.|title=Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary America|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2005|isbn=9780810853898|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAgEVl8wQmsC|pages=233–234}}</ref>
*[[1780]] &ndash; The anti-Catholic [[Gordon Riots]] in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.<ref>George Rudé, "The Gordon Riots: A Study of the Rioters and Their Victims: The Alexander Prize Essay," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Vol. 6 (1956), p. 97-98</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[French Revolution]]: [[François Hanriot]], leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 [[Girondist]]s selected by [[Jean-Paul Marat]], setting the stage for the [[Reign of Terror]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Corfield|first=Justin|chapter=Hanriot, François (1761-1794)|title=Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815. Vol. 1|editor-last=Fremont-Barnes|editor-first=Gregory|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2007|isbn=9780313334450|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEbPEAAAQBAJ|page=326}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: A [[First French Empire|Franco]]-[[Enlightenment in Spain|Spanish]] fleet [[Battle of Diamond Rock|recaptures from the British]] the island of [[Diamond Rock]], which guards the entrance to the bay leading to [[Fort-de-France]], Martinique.<ref>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. Vol. 1|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2008|isbn=9781598841008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VafOEAAAQBAJ|page=562}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; The [[Prague Slavic Congress, 1848|Slavic Congress]] opens in [[Prague]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Leiner|first=Martin|chapter=Setting the Stage: An Introductory Clarification of Concepts of East Central Europe|title=The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe Between Conflict and Reconciliation. Vol. 4: Research in Peace and Reconciliation|editor-last1=Feldman|editor-first1=Lily Gardner|editor-last2=Barash|editor-first2=Raisa|editor-last3=Goda|editor-first3=Samuel|editor-last4=Zempelburg|editor-first4=André|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|date=2019|isbn=9783525560334|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8zkEAAAQBAJ|page=20}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Fenian Brotherhood|Fenians]] defeat Canadian forces at [[Battle of Ridgeway|Ridgeway]] and [[Battle of Fort Erie (1866)|Fort Erie]], but the raids end soon after.
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Marconi]] applies for a [[patent]] for his [[Wireless telegraphy|wireless telegraph]].