1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
1519 - King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at …
