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• Joshua Slocum completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe, 27 June 1898
• Henry VIII is born at Greenwich, 28 June 1491
• Cartographer Abraham Ortelius dies, 28 June 1598
• Coronation of Queen Victoria, 28 June 1838
• Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Island, 29 June 1534
• Battle of Beachy Head, 30 June 1690
• Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island, 2 July 1578
• Robert Pitcairn discovers Pitcairn Island, 3 July 1767