What Happened in June 1818

Historical Events

  • Jun 3 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends

Teatro Rossini

Jun 10 Pesaro opera theater Teatro Nuovo (now Teatro Rossini) opens with Gioachino Rossini's "La gaza ladra" (The Thieving Magpie")

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 3 Louis Faidherbe, French general and colonel administrator in Senegal, born in Lille, France (d. 1889)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

Jun 17 French composer (Faust; La reine the Saba; Funeral March of a Marionette), born in Paris

  • Jun 17 Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of Netherlands as wife of William III, born in Ludwigsburg Palace, Stuttgart, Württemberg (d. 1877)
  • Jun 21 Ernst II, Duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93) and composer, born in Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, Germany (d. 1893)
  • Jun 21 Joseph Abel Haskin, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Troy, New York (d. 1874)
  • Jun 23 Simon Vissering, Dutch economist (Minister of Finances 1879-81), born in Amsterdam (d. 1888)
  • Jun 30 Edward John Hopkins, British chorister, organist (Temple Church, 1843-98), and composer, born in Westminster, England (d. 1901)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 4 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44
  • Jun 12 Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia (1801-1818), dies
  • Jun 29 Carl Philipp Fohr, German painter and cartoonist, dies at 22