Events for June 16

June 16, 1904

James Joyce had his first date with Nora Barnacle

June 16, 1282

Invading English Army defeated at Llandeilo, Wales, by Llywelyn II

June 16, 1924

Friends send Joyce, who is in the hospital, a bouquet of white and blue hydrangeas

He writes in his notebook - Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?

June 16, 1929

David Norris, a Dublin senator and a leading Joyce scholar, the first official celebration of Bloomsday is held on its twenty-fifth anniversary