Historical Events
- Jun 1 Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
- Jun 5 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces
New Settlement
Jun 23 Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
Catherine the Great
Battle of Fleurus
Jun 26 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
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- Jun 30 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 28 Allen Frances Gardiner, British naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, born in Basildon, Berkshire, England (d. 1851)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 8 G A Borger, writer, dies
- Jun 14 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland, dies at 75
- Jun 18 James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
- Jun 19 Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 62
- Jun 20 Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (discover the theory of homology in biology), dies at 46
- Jun 27 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
- Jun 27 Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
