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
- Jun 21 Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1937)
- Jun 22 Frank Damrosch, German-born American author and music teacher (founded NY Musical Institute of Musical Art, later Julliard), born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1937)
- Jun 23 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses), born in Vlissingen, Netherlands (d. 1936)
- Jun 27 Mildred J. Hill, American composer and musician ("Happy Birthday To You"), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1916)
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
