On This Day: June 3rd

Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.

The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.

Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.

An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay.

Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Novgorod Republic and Norway in Finnmark.

The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.

The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.

The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.