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Royal Grant: Roquefort Cheese Monopoly (+ 8 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (04 Jun 2026)
Today's historical events:
King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession…
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