Historical Events
- Jun 4 First baseball-type game in Canada played at Beachville, Upper Canada
- Jun 10 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered
- Jun 12 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Jun 12 Iowa Territory forms with Burlington as its capital
Coronation of Queen Victoria
Jun 28 Coronation of Queen Victoria aged 19 during a five-hour ceremony at Westminster Abbey, London [1]
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 2 Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia (née Duchess Alexandra Frederica Wilhelmina of Oldenburg), German-Russian noblewoman and philanthropist, born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1900)
- Jun 4 Servaas Daems [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute), born in Noorderwijk, Netherlands (d. 1903)
- Jun 10 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1924)
- Jun 16 Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
- Jun 23 Edwin Henry Stoughton, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Chester, Vermont (d. 1868)
- Jun 24 Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism), born in Heilbronn, Germany (d. 1917)
- Jun 27 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Indian novelist (Anandamath), born in Naihati, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1894)
- Jun 27 Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1914)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 25 François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French Army general, dies at 64
