8th » A group of 194 Pitcairn Islands named Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS or Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
9th » 500 Mormon handcart pioneers or Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled cart e.g handcarts.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1856
14th » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922)
22nd » H. Rider Haggard, English author and scholar (d. 1925)
Famous Deaths for June 1856
23rd » Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)