What Happened in June 1832

Historical Events

  • Jun 4 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
  • Jun 5 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
  • Jun 6 The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end
  • Jun 7 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
  • Jun 16 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois - Illinois militia fight small force of Native Americans
  • Jun 22 John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
  • Jun 28 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 3 Alexander Charles Lecocq, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1918)
  • Jun 10 Edwin Arnold, English writer (The Light of Asia), born in Gravesend, Kent (d. 1904)
  • Jun 10 Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (gas motor, otto motor), born in Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau (d. 1891)
  • Jun 17 William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium), born in London (d. 1919)
  • Jun 21 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), born in Georgetown, South Carolina (d. 1887)
  • Jun 24 Edward Harland, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1915)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 2 Manuel del Popolo GarcĂ­a, Spanish composer and tenor, dies at 57

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Jun 6 English philosopher, social reformer and founder of modern utilitarianism, dies at 84

  • Jun 10 Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer, dies at 57
  • Jun 23 James Hall, Scottish geologist, dies at 70
  • Jun 27 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, French army officer, and composer ("La Marseillaise" -the French national anthem), dies at 72