ON THIS DAY
- Battles & Sieges
- 1757 (269 years ago) (23 June) The Battle of Plassey was fought between the East India Company and the Nawabs of Bengal at Plassey (now in West Bengal, India). The last independent Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah lost the battle and was executed on 2 July 1757 on the orders of Mir Meerun, son of one of his generals, Mir Jafar.
- Deaths
- 1565 (461 years ago) (23 June) The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis or Dragut died during the Great Siege of Malta. The siege ended with the Christian victory.
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