What Happened in June 1858

Historical Events

Jun 16 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

Jun 21 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe

Jun 1 William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream, Ian of the Orcades), born in Newmarket, Ontario (d. 1918)
Jun 8 Antoni Nicolau, Spanish composer and conductor, born in Barcelona (d. 1933)
Jun 8 Harry Rowe Shelley, American composer (known for his hymn music), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1947)
Jun 16 Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50), born in Stockholm (d. 1950)
Jun 17 Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician (44th Governor of Massachusetts), born in Hopedale, Massachusetts (d. 1914)
Jun 18 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1931)
Jun 19 Dirk Fock, Dutch politician and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1921-26), born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands (d. 1941)
Jun 19 George Alexander [Samson], British actor, theatre producer and manager, born in Reading, Berkshire (d. 1918)
Jun 20 Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (The Conjure Woman), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1932)
Jun 20 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1928)
Jun 23 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician (exchangability), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1931)
Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, born in Tours, France (d. 1929)
Jun 29 George Washington Goethals, American army general and civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1928)

Jun 18 Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah Thoresen (21) in Oslo

Jun 3 Julius Reubke, German organist, pianist, and composer (Sonata on the 94th Psalm in c), dies of tuberculosis at 24
Jun 4 J. Pinckney Henderson, American lawyer and politician (1st Governor of Texas, 1846-47; US Senator from Texas, 1857-58), dies at 50
Jun 10 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (discovered 'Brownian Motion'), dies at 84
Jun 11 Klemens von Metternich, Austrian leading statesman (Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1809-48, hosted Congress of Vienna 1814-15), dies at 85
Jun 12 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder, dies at 74
Jun 12 William Horsley, English musician and composer, dies at 83
Jun 15 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor, dies at 63

Jun 16 English physician who studied cholera and is considered the 'Father of modern epidemiology', dies of a stroke at 45

Jun 17 Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
Jun 18 Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India and leader of the Indian Mutiny (1857-58), dies at 23