Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7
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June 7: Corpus Christi in Catholicism (2007).
- 1099 - Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city.
- 1494 - Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two countries.
- 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway (pictured), Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the World War II German invasion.
- 1948 - Rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.