What Happened in June 1843

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Jun 1 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth — Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate
Sojourner Truth

Jun 24 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy
Jun 26 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony

Famous Birthdays

Jun 1 Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
Jun 3 Frederik VIII, King of Denmark (1906-12)

Susan Blow

Jun 7 Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1916)

Jun 9 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist (1st woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905), born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1914)
Jun 10 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1900)
Jun 15 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Bewitched One), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1907)
Jun 16 David Popper, composer
Jun 16 Jan Malat, Czech composer (d. 1915)
Jun 19 Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1917)
Jun 30 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, born in Clapton, London, England (d. 1929)