On June 17
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly June 17 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jun 14 – Jun 20)
On 18 June 1815, near the village of Waterloo in present-day Belgium, Napoleon's bid to reclaim power during the Hundred Days came to a decisive end.
On 20 June 451 CE, a coalition of the Western Roman Empire and the Visigoths, jointly led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, confronted the Huns and their subject peoples under Attila on the…
In 1215, rebellious English barons confronted the unpopular King John over heavy taxation, arbitrary justice and the abuses of royal power that had followed his military failures in France.
On 14 June 1830 a French expeditionary force of some 34,000 troops under General de Bourmont landed at Sidi Ferruch, west of Algiers, and within three weeks compelled the surrender of Hussein Dey, ruler of the Ottoman Regency of Algiers.
On 16 June 2009 the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the first formal BRIC summit, transforming an investment-bank acronym coined in 2001 into a working diplomatic grouping.