Historical Events
- Jun 1 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia
- Jun 1 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
- Jun 1 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia
- Jun 1 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
- Jun 3 1st American Civil War land battle: Union forces defeat the Confederacy at Philippi in modern-day West Virginia
- Jun 5 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE
- Jun 6 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
- Jun 8 American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union
- Jun 8 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
- Jun 10 Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal) the Union retreats
- Jun 11 Battle of Laurel Hill, West Virginia - Confederate General Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed during the Civil War
- Jun 12 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federal "invasion" from taking over his state after US Army forces led by Nathaniel Lyon arrest pro-Confederate state militia at Fort Jackson
Harpers Ferry Evacuated
Jun 14 Confederates burn the B&O Railroad bridge and the US Armory buildings at Harpers Ferry before evacuating in face of General George McClellan's advance [1]
- Jun 15 Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
- Jun 16 Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina (James Island)
- Jun 17 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
- Jun 19 Anaheim Post Office established
- Jun 19 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
- Jun 24 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia Union forces attack Confederate batteries
- Jun 24 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from Union
- Jun 28 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
- Jun 30 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 9 Floris Verster [van Wulverhorst], Dutch painter, cartoonist and etcher, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1927)
- Jun 10 Joseph Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem), born in Roermond, the Netherlands (d. 1949)
- Jun 10 Pierre Duhem, French naturalist, philosopher and historian, born in Paris (d. 1916)
- Jun 11 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, Ukrainian-Russian composer, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine (d. 1915)
- Jun 12 William Attewell, English cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), born in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1927)
- Jun 15 Ernestine Schumann-Heink (née Rössler), Austrian-American contralto (Bayreuth Festival, 1896-1914; Metropolitan Opera, 1899-1932), born in Libeň, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1936)
- Jun 16 Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer and librarian (d. 1937)
- Jun 17 Omar Bundy, U.S. Army general (Spanish–American War in Cuba), born in New Castle, Indiana (d. 1940)
- Jun 17 Pete Browning, American baseball outfielder (AA batting champion 1882, 85 Louisville Eclipse/Colonels; Player's League batting champion 1890 Cleveland Infants), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1905)
- Jun 17 Sidney Jones, British conductor and composer (The Geisha, A Gaiety Girl), born in Islington, London (d. 1946)
- Jun 18 José Trindade Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores), born in Mogadouro, Portugal (d. 1908)
Douglas Haig (1861-1928)
Jun 19 British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WWI), nicknamed "Butcher Haig" due to mass casualties under his command during the Battle of the Somme, born in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
José Rizal (1861-1896)
Jun 19 Filipino nationalist and novelist ('Noli Me Tángere', 'El Filibusterismo'), born in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines
- Jun 20 Arthur Battelle Whiting, American composer and teacher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1936)
- Jun 20 Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1947)
- Jun 22 Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (Commander of the East Asia Squadron during WWI), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1914)
- Jun 29 William James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), born in Le Sueur, Minnesota (d. 1939)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 John Quincy Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war at 36
- Jun 3 Stephen A. Douglas, American politician, US senator from Illinois (Lincoln-Douglas debates), dies at 48
- Jun 5 John Garland, US Union colonel and brigadier general, dies in battle
- Jun 5 Tomás Genovés y Lapetra Spanish opera and zarzuela composer (The Abduction), dies at 55
- Jun 6 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian politician who advocated for unification (First Prime Minister of Italy 1861), dies at 50
- Jun 6 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
- Jun 25 Abdulmejid I, 31st Sultan of Ottoman Empire, dies at 38
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Jun 29 British poet and writer ("How Do I Love thee"), dies at 55
