June1843

June 1843 in History

Events in History

Jun 1 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, & Cleveland, Ohio

Event of Interest

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

Sojourner Truth — 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

Birthdays in History

Jun 1 Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
Jun 3 Frederik VIII, King of Denmark (1906-12)
Jun 5 Samuel Garman, American zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and namesake of a Jamaican lizard, born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania (d. 1927)

Susan Blow (1843-1916)

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

Susan Blow

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 30 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, born in Clapton, London, England (d. 1929)

Weddings in History

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

Deaths in History

Jun 6 Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)

Historical Figures

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