3rd » In Humen Town known as Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a 'casus belli' to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
14th » Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
17th » In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholic Church or Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu called Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathe
22nd » Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) or Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Cherokee removal or Trail of Tears.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1839
10th » Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician, 19th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1912)