June 4 – On the island now occupied by
Sri Lanka,
Narendra Sinha becomes the monarch of most of the area as the new
Kandyan king, succeeding to the throne upon the death of his father, King
Vimaladharmasuriya II. Narendra Sinha reigns for almost 32 years until his death on May 13, 1739.
June 6 – The soldiers and officers defending the Aragonese city of Játiva are massacred after a larger force of Castilian troops breaks through the walls at the end of a
30-day siege. The rest of the town's residents are deported, and most of the dwellings are burned, with the area being renamed "San Felipe". [5]
June 19 – The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India,
Bahadur Shah I, takes place in
Delhi
June 28 –
Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the new
Dalai Lama by his father,
Lha-bzang Khan, who has recently deposed the
6th Dalai Lama. Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the
5th Dalai Lama, Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the
7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.
August 27 –
Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from
Altranstädt with 60,000 coalition troops. [6] Another 16,000 soldiers are waiting on the outskirts of
Riga, guarding the
Swedish supply lines.
The
English Parliament establishes the first
turnpike trusts, which place a length of
road under the control of trustees, drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls, and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.
Umze Peljor, Bhutanese head of government and monk
References
^Robert S. Rait, The Parliaments of Scotland (Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1924) p.121
^Payne, Stanley G. (1973). "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
June 4 – On the island now occupied by
Sri Lanka,
Narendra Sinha becomes the monarch of most of the area as the new
Kandyan king, succeeding to the throne upon the death of his father, King
Vimaladharmasuriya II. Narendra Sinha reigns for almost 32 years until his death on May 13, 1739.
June 6 – The soldiers and officers defending the Aragonese city of Játiva are massacred after a larger force of Castilian troops breaks through the walls at the end of a
30-day siege. The rest of the town's residents are deported, and most of the dwellings are burned, with the area being renamed "San Felipe". [5]
June 19 – The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India,
Bahadur Shah I, takes place in
Delhi
June 28 –
Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the new
Dalai Lama by his father,
Lha-bzang Khan, who has recently deposed the
6th Dalai Lama. Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the
5th Dalai Lama, Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the
7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.
August 27 –
Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from
Altranstädt with 60,000 coalition troops. [6] Another 16,000 soldiers are waiting on the outskirts of
Riga, guarding the
Swedish supply lines.
The
English Parliament establishes the first
turnpike trusts, which place a length of
road under the control of trustees, drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls, and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.
Umze Peljor, Bhutanese head of government and monk
References
^Robert S. Rait, The Parliaments of Scotland (Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1924) p.121
^Payne, Stanley G. (1973). "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.