- Jun 3 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
Cook Discovers Great Barrier Reef
Jun 10 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to discover the Great Barrier Reef off Australia - by running aground on its coral causing the ship to leak (ship later beached and repaired)
- Jun 12 Patent for 'Spinning Jenny' first multiple spinning machine, that would revolutionise cotton spinning, granted to English weaver James Hargreaves [1]
- Jun 19 Swedish theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion
- Jun 28 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
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