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/pacifist (Nobel 1905)
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)

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

Jun 19 Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany

Communist Philosopher Karl Marx — Communist Philosopher
Karl Marx

Famous Deaths

Jun 6 Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
Jun 22 Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88

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