Editing June 13 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1625]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] marries Catholic princess [[Henrietta Maria of France]] and [[Navarre]], at Canterbury.<ref>{{cite book|title=McCarty's Annual Statistician|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52|year=1879|publisher=L.P. McCarty|pages=52}}</ref>
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] provincial governor [[James Oglethorpe]] begins an unsuccessful attempt to take [[Spanish Florida]] during the [[Siege of St. Augustine (1740)|Siege of St. Augustine]].<ref>{{cite book|title=McCarty's Annual Statistician|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA240|year=1879|publisher=L.P. McCarty|pages=240}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Rhode Island]] becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Nathan Kane|title=Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqUEAAAAYAAJ|year=1950|publisher=H. W. Wilson|page=420}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]] lands near [[Charleston, South Carolina]], in order to help the [[Continental Congress]] to train its army.
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]: Scouting ahead of the expedition, [[Meriwether Lewis]] and four companions sight the [[Great Falls of the Missouri River]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lavender|first=David|title=The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent|location=New York|publisher=Harpercollins|date=1988|isbn=9780803280038|pages=212–213}}</ref>
*[[1850]] &ndash; The [[American League of Colored Laborers]], the first African American [[labor union]] in the United States, is established in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradley |first=Jonathan |date=January 4, 2011 |title=American League of Colored Laborers (1850-?) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/american-league-colored-laborers-1850/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205065637/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/american-league-colored-laborers-1850/ |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |access-date=April 26, 2024 |website=[[BlackPast.org]]}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; Twentieth opera of [[Giuseppe Verdi]], ''[[Les vêpres siciliennes]]'' ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sarah|last=Hibberd|title=The Creation of Les Vêpres siciliennes, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.|publisher=Program book for 2013 production|pages=11–17}}</ref> 
*[[1881]] &ndash; The [[USS Jeannette (1878)|USS ''Jeannette'']] is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Great Vancouver Fire|A fire devastates]] much of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]].
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Grover Cleveland]] notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes [[Grover Cleveland#Cancer|secret, successful surgery]] to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Émile Levassor]] wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about {{convert|15|mph|spell=in}}.<ref>[http://www.grandprixhistory.org/story.htm Grand Prix History online] (retrieved 11 June 2017)</ref> 
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Yukon Territory]] is formed, with [[Dawson, Yukon|Dawson]] chosen as its capital.