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

Napoleon III
- Jun 6 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
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

Victor Emmanuel II

Franz Joseph I

Napoleon III
Birthdays in History
Thomas J. Walsh
Jun 12 Thomas J. Walsh, United States Senator (Montana), born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin (d. 1933)

Thomas J. Walsh
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Jun 13 Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (37) weds Mary Cleveland

Frederick Law Olmsted
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

Walter Hunt
- Jun 27 Jean Chrétien Baud, Dutch gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69