Historical Events
- Jun 2 Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces at Galveston, Texas; he then flees to Mexico to avoid charges of treason
Tristan und Isolde
Jun 10 Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" premieres in Munich, Germany
Reconstruction
Jun 13 President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
Juneteenth
Jun 19 Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth
W. G. Grace
Jun 22 Acknowledged as 1st Class Cricket debut of Dr W. G. Grace; as a 16-year-old he is dismissed for 0 playing for Gentlemen of South v Players of South at Kennington Oval, London
- Jun 22 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
- Jun 23 At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army
- Jun 28 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
- Jun 30 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
Famous Birthdays
George Lohmann (1865-1901)
Jun 2 England cricket medium pace bowler (18 Tests, 112 wickets @ 10.75), born in Kensington, England
George V (1865-1936)
Jun 3 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born in Marlborough House, London,
- Jun 4 Guido Gasperini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1942)
- Jun 9 Albéric Magnard, French composer (died defending his property against German invasion 1914), born in Paris, France (d. 1914)
- Jun 9 Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist and composer (Det Uudslukkelige), born in Sortelung, Denmark (d. 1931)
- Jun 10 Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, born in Callicoon, New York (d. 1940)
- Jun 11 J. H. Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1925)
- Jun 13 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), born in Sandymount, Ireland (d. 1939)
- Jun 14 Auguste Serieyx, French composer and pedagogue, born in Amiens, France (d. 1949)
- Jun 15 L. H. Perquin, Dutch religious radio broadcaster (d. 1938)
- Jun 15 Paul Gilson, Belgian composer, born in Brussels (d. 1942)
- Jun 17 Susan La Flesche Picotte, American physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), born on the Omaha Reservation, Nebraska (d. 1915) [1]
- Jun 19 Alfred Hugenberg, German right-wing politician, businessman, and media magnate, born in Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover (now Germany) (d. 1951)
- Jun 19 May Whitty, British actress (Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1948)
- Jun 21 Herbert Brewer, English composer, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1928)
- Jun 24 Robert Henri, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
- Jun 26 Bernard Berenson, American art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance), born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1959)
- Jun 26 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), born in Poissy, France (d. 1929)
- Jun 26 George C. Pearce, American actor (The Shadow Sinister, British Agent, Valiant), born in New York City (d. 1940)
- Jun 28 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), born in Grünberg, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1910)
- Jun 29 Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now disputed (120 y 237 d), born in Isen, Tokunoshima, Satsuma Domain, Japan (d. 1986)
- Jun 29 William E. Borah, American lawyer and politician (Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho), born in Fairfield, Illinois (d. 1940)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 Johannes Elias Feisser, Dutch theologist and founder of 1st Dutch baptist church, dies at 59
- Jun 2 Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician, dies at 81
- Jun 3 Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
- Jun 6 William Quantrill, American guerrilla leader in the Confederate Army who led Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre, dies of wounds at 27
- Jun 8 Joseph Paxton, English architect, gardener and MP (Crystal Palace), dies at 61
- Jun 10 Lydia Sigourney (née Huntley), American poet and writer (How to Be Happy; Letter of Life), known as "the Sweet Singer of Hartford", dies at 73
- Jun 13 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brigadier general, dies at about 29
- Jun 15 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
- Jun 15 Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, dies at 61
- Jun 21 Frances Adeline Seward, American First Lady of New York (1839-42) and wife of US Secretary of State William H. Seward, dies of a heart attack at 59
- Jun 23 Samuel Francis DuPont, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 61
