Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 22
On June 22:
- 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated and captured Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
- 1854 - British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1941 - Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
- 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolished capital punishment.