Events in History
Victory in Battle
Jun 4 Second Italian War of Independence: Battle of Magenta, results in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III over the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai
- Jun 6 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
- Jun 12 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered, first major silver discovery in the US
- Jun 15 Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers
Victory in Battle
Jun 24 Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and a Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcomes the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I
Birthdays in History
Thomas J. Walsh
Jun 12 Thomas J. Walsh, United States Senator (Montana), born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin (d. 1933)
Weddings in History
Frederick Law Olmsted
Jun 13 Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (37) weds Mary Cleveland
Deaths in History
- Jun 7 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
Walter Hunt
Jun 8 Walter Hunt, American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), dies at 62
- Jun 27 Jean Chrétien Baud, Dutch gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69