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What Happened In June 1861 In History

Historical Events for June, 1861

  • 1st » American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate States Army known as Confederate combat casualty.
  • 3rd » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (West Virginia) Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) Union (American Civil War) Union forces rout Confederate States of America Confederate troops in Barbour County, West Virginia Barbour County, Virgi
  • 8th » American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union (American Civil War) called Union.
  • 10th » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate States of America or Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union (American Civil War) or Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
  • 17th » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1861

  • 2nd » Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
  • 9th » Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
  • 9th » Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
  • 12th » William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
  • 17th » Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
  • 17th » Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
  • 19th » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
  • 19th » José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
  • 20th » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
  • 22nd » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (d. 1914)
  • 29th » William James Mayo, American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)

Famous Deaths for June 1861

  • 1st » John Quincy Marr, American captain (b. 1825)
  • 3rd » Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
  • 6th » Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
  • 25th » Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1823)
  • 29th » Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)

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