Historical Events
- Jun 5 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
- Jun 10 First Barbary War: Tripolitania agrees to peace in war with US over the latter's refusal to make tribute payments; US pays ransom for release of prisoners and lifts naval blockade
- Jun 10 First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 8 Luigi Ricci, Italian composer, born in Naples, KIngdom of Naples (d. 1859)
- Jun 14 Robert Anderson, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1871)
- Jun 15 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, born in Walton, New York (d. 1877)
- Jun 21 Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician and geologist, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1880)
- Jun 21 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1841)
- Jun 22 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician and revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare), born in Genoa, Ligurian Republic (d. 1872)
- Jun 27 Stephen Elvey, British organist and choir master (New College, Oxford 1830 -60), and hymn composer, born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1860)
- Jun 29 Hiram Powers, American sculptor (Greek Slave), born in Woodstock, Vermont (d. 1873)
Famous Weddings
William Lamb
Jun 3 Lady Caroline Ponsonby (19) marries future Prime Minister William Lamb, Lord Melbourne (26) in London
Famous Deaths
- Jun 19 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
