Historical Events
Battle of Magenta
Jun 4 Second Italian War of Independence: Battle of Magenta, results in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III over the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai
- Jun 6 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- Jun 12 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered, first major silver discovery in the US
- Jun 15 Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers
Battle of Solferino
Jun 24 Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: French under Napoleon III and a Sardinian army under Victor Emmanuel II defeat the Austrian army led by Emperor Franz Joseph I
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 8 Frank Dalton, American lawman of the Old West (Deputy US Marshal, Oklahoma Territory), brother of the Dalton Gang of outlaws, born in Westport, Missouri (d. 1887)
- Jun 8 Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure, born in Menston, Yorkshire, England (d. 1947)
- Jun 10 Jacques Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1881)
Thomas J. Walsh (1859-1933)
Jun 12 United States Senator (Montana), born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Édouard Michelin (1859-1940)
Jun 23 French industrialist who founded Michelin, born in Clermond-Ferrand, France
Famous Weddings
Frederick Law Olmsted
Jun 13 Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (37) weds Mary Cleveland
Famous Deaths
- Jun 7 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
Walter Hunt (1796-1859)
Jun 8 American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), dies at 62
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859)
Jun 11 Austrian statesman, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1809-48) and host of the Congress of Vienna (1814-15), dies at 86