📅 Magna Carta is sealed (1215)
Where: Runnymede, England
📅 On This Day: June 15
June 15, 1215: Magna Carta is sealed. On this day in 1215, King John of England sealed Magna Carta, the Great Charter, in a meadow at Runnymede near London. It held the idea that even a king must follow the law. Only four copies of the 1215 original survive today.
✨ More events on this day
- 1843 🎨 Composer Edvard Grieg was born in Norway; his piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King" gets faster and faster like trolls chasing someone.
- 1919 🧭 Pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown landed in a bog in Ireland after flying from Newfoundland, completing the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
- 1988 🚀 Europe's Ariane 4 rocket made its first flight from French Guiana; it went on to launch more than a hundred satellites for TV, weather and phones.
🧠 Question of the day
What idea does Magna Carta hold?
- A king can do anything
- All taxes are cancelled
- Even a king must follow the law
Show the answer
Answer: Even a king must follow the law
🎂 Landmarks that opened on June 15
Questions
What happened on June 15?
June 15, 1215: Magna Carta is sealed. It happened in Runnymede, England.
Which landmarks opened on June 15?
Vasa Museum (opened 1990).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.