📅 Today in HistoryJune 29

Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei.

The Avars and Sassanids besiege Constantinople, held by Byzantine troops under Patrician Bonus.

Former Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes is blinded on command of caesar John Doukas.

Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.

A major earthquake hits Syria, badly damaging towns such as Hama and Shaizar and structures such as the Krak des Chevaliers and the cathedral of St. Peter in Antioch.

Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.

Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.

The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire

Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.

The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.