On This Day: June 8th

American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.

Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.

Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.

English forces under King Richard I arrive in Acre, joining the already arrived French and German forces of the Third Crusade.

The Byzantine general Isaac Komnenos is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor in opposition to reigning emperor Michael VI Bringas.

Edward the Confessor becomes King of England - the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.

Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.

Election of pope Silverius following the death of pope Agapetus I earlier that year.

Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.

Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.