Martinique owes its name to Colombus who landed on the island on 15 June 1502.

Moctezuma II ( c. 1466 – 29 June 1520 ), also known by a number of variant spellings including Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin ( Moctezuma the Young ), was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520.

* June 11 – King John III of Portugal ( b. 1502 )

* June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland ( b. 1502 )

In June 1502, Santo Domingo was destroyed by a major hurricane, and the new Governor Nicolás de Ovando had it rebuilt on a different site on the other side of the Ozama River.

John III ( João III ; 7 June 1502 – 11 June 1557 ) was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 13 December 1521 to 11 June 1557, the second monarch of the new House of Aviz-Beja.

John, the eldest son of King Manuel I, was born in Lisbon on 6 June 1502.

Christopher Columbus charted the island in 1493, making the region known to European interests, but it was not until June 15, 1502, on his fourth voyage, that he actually landed, leaving several pigs and goats on the island.

He was translated to Durham on 27 June 1502.

His diary also informs us that he entered a relationship with Kunigunde Holocher in 1499, with whom he had three children: a son Johannes born on the 1st February 1502, a daughter Sibilla born on the 12th June 1503 and a second son Vitus born on the 21st November 1504.

Vespucci probably came to this realization in June of 1502, during a famous chance meeting between two different expeditions at the watering stop of " Bezeguiche " ( the Bay of Dakar, Senegal )-his own outgoing expedition, on its way to chart the coast of newly-discovered Brazil, and the vanguard ships of the Second Portuguese India armada of Pedro Alvares Cabral, returning home from India.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

I started the seed in a flat in June and set out the little pansies in a cold frame.

The crusaders, whose objective had been Egypt, were persuaded to set their course for Constantinople before which they appeared in June 1203, proclaiming Alexios IV as Emperor and inviting the populace of the capital to depose his uncle.

Their creativity soared after their father presented Branwell with a set of toy soldiers in June 1826.

On 22 June, the temperature reached in Faya, breaking a record set in 1961 at the same location.

It was from Constantinople that his expedition for the reconquest of the former Diocese of Africa set sail on or about 21 June 533.

In June 2009, the team rapidly improved and by the end of June, the Rockies set a franchise record for victories in a month with 21 in a 28 game stretch ( one win better than the September 2007 Rocktober run ).

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

After an urgent call for help from the Legation, Seymour set out on 10 June with 2000 troops to attempt to break through to Peking.

On February 22, 2010, a copy of Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) sold at auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $ 1 million, besting the $ 317, 000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year.

On 8 June 2007, during the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Sarkozy set a goal of reducing French CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions by 50 % by 2050 in order to prevent global warming.

Nikolai Bezroukov publishes his own set of criteria for a standard ( version 1. 2 dated June 1997 ). The text-mode Midnight Commander is a well-known orthodox file manager.

On 12 May a commission was set up to examine Eiffel's scheme and its rivals and on 12 June it presented its decision, which was that only Eiffel's proposal met their requirements.

In June 1325, at the age of twenty-one, Ibn Battuta set off from his hometown on a hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, a journey that would take sixteen months.

In June 1941, weeks after the German invasion began, Stalin also directed employing a scorched earth policy of destroying the infrastructure and food supplies of areas before the Germans could seize them, and that partisans were to be set up in evacuated areas.

Stuart set out with 1, 200 troopers on the morning of June 12 and, having determined that the flank was indeed vulnerable, took his men on a complete circumnavigation of the Union army, returning after 150 miles on July 15 with 165 captured Union soldiers, 260 horses and mules, and various quartermaster and ordnance supplies.

The Jules Rimet Trophy was taken to Uruguay for the first FIFA World Cup aboard the Conte Verde, which set sail from Villefranche-sur-Mer, just south of Nice, on 21 June 1930.

In 1882 Pope Leo XIII had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 April, the day after the day indicated as that of his death in the Martyrology of Florus ; but since this date quite often falls within the main Paschal celebrations, the feast was moved in 1968 to 1 June, the date on which he has been celebrated in the Byzantine Rite since at least the 9th century.

Meanwhile, on the political front, Prime Minister Rashid Karami, head of a government of national unity set up after the failed peace efforts of 1984, was assassinated on June 1, 1987.

A brief, low-key European tour was undertaken in June and July 1980, featuring a stripped-down set without the usual lengthy jams and solos.

Monthly low water records were set from July 1934 through June 1935.

Accompanied by Peter of Canterbury, another missionary, he set off some time after July 598, and had returned by June 601.

In June 1992, MIME ( RFC 1341, since made obsolete by RFC 2045 ) defined a set of methods for representing binary data in ASCII text format.

If nothing else, at least two good songs came out of the project, `` Out Of This World '' and `` June Comes Around Every Year ''.

With everyone running in different directions, some local businessmen worked out a deal and were awarded an AFL franchise on June 7, 1965, contingent upon acquiring exclusive stadium rights from city officials.

LF Eric Byrnes was on the 60-day disabled list from late June, with a torn left hamstring, and was out for the remainder of the season.

Napoleon and his mother, Laetitia, were taken out by ship in June 1793, by friends while two of the girls found refuge with other friends.

Former Pittsburgh Pirate manager Lloyd McClendon is jokingly referred to as having " stolen first " in a June 26, 2001 game – after disputing a call at first base, he yanked the base out of the ground and left the field with it, delaying the game.

This agitation continued in the Ubaye Valley ; a new revolt broke out on 14 June, and famine was declared in April 1792.

It was topped out in 1989, and occupied on 15 June 1990.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 16 June 1913.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 when Bulgaria attacked its erstwhile allies in the First Balkan War, Serbia and Greece, while Montenegro, Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervened later against Bulgaria.

In June 2012 the Cypriot finance minister Vassos Shiarly stated that the European Central Bank, European commission and IMF officials are to carry out an in-depth investigation into Cyprus ' economy and banking sector to assess the level of funding it requires.

In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school.

Between June 12, 1995 and April 4, 2001, the Indians sold out 455 consecutive home games, drawing a total of 19, 324, 248 fans to Jacobs Field.

He succeeded and the Spaniards were driven out of Tenochtitlan on June 30, 1520.

By June 2003, all foreign armies except those of Rwanda had pulled out of Congo.

On June 10, 2008 clashes broke out in the Ras Doumeira region between Djibouti and Eritrea.

In these positions he was charged with planning and carrying out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 under the code name Operation Overlord, the liberation of Western Europe and the invasion of Germany.

In June 1987, Rosenthal filed a $ 30 million lawsuit against lawyers he claimed cheated him out of millions of dollars in real estate investments.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

Their marriage was kept out of the public eye for nearly 18 months, and when made public, in June 1969, caused a considerable backlash for Jones from fans accusing him of deception.

However, some such as Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, have pointed out that prices have increased irrespective of supply and demand issues: Ghosh points to world wheat prices, which doubled in the period from June to December 2010, despite there being no fall in global supply.

On 29 June, Foreign Minister Tavola said that Fiji was " running out of patience " and that he was writing to the government of Vanuatu in what he called a " final gesture of friendship.