Historical Events
- Jun 8 An uprising involving three hundred workers in the English town of Pentrich begins but is quashed almost immediately
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 17 Thomas Maley Harris, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wood County, West Virginia (d. 1906)
- Jun 21 James Brewerton Ricketts, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1887)
- Jun 26 Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë], English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England (d. 1848)
- Jun 30 Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, born in Halesworth, Suffolk (d. 1911)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 13 Richard Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist, dies at 73
- Jun 18 Joannes Siberg, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1801-05), dies
- Jun 23 Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, Prussian composer, dies at 63
- Jun 24 Thomas McKean, American attorney and politician (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 83
- Jun 30 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
