Jun 1 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio Historic Event Jun 1 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist Abolitionist and Women's Rights Advocate Sojourner Truth Jun 24 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside a ghetto in Italy Jun 26 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony 1842 Historical Events by Year 1844