Historical Events
- Jun 5 Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
- Jun 8 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
- Jun 10 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tyre
- Jun 14 Belgian Liberal Party forms
- Jun 14 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
- Jun 15 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
- Jun 19 First officially recognised baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23 defeat Knickerbockers 1 at Hoboken, New Jersey
- Jun 24 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
- Jun 28 Saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph "Adolfe" Sax
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 4 Josef Sittard, German musicologist and music critic, born in Vital, Aachen, Germany (d. 1903)
- Jun 7 Władysław Górski, Polish violinist, composer and teacher, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1915)
- Jun 11 William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer, born in Washington, Kentucky (d. 1920)
- Jun 19 Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer, born in San Pietro di Gorizia (d. 1928)
- Jun 27 Charles Stewart Parnell, English-Irish Home Rule Party leader, born in Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland (d. 1891)
- Jun 30 Ricardo Drigo, Italian composer, born in Padua, Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom (now Italy) (d. 1930)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari], Pope (1831-1846), dies at 80
- Jun 20 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
- Jun 22 Benjamin Haydon, British painter (Waiting for The Times), commits suicide at 60
- Jun 24 Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and philologist, dies at 53
- Jun 28 Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar and educationalist, dies at 77
