June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June.
June symbols: The birthstones of June are pearl, alexandrite and moonstone. The birth flower is rose. The zodiac signs for the month of June are Gemini (until June 20) and Cancer (June 21 onwards).
Historical Events for June, 1816
Day of Week 16th » Lord Byron reads 'Fantasmagoriana' to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing th
Famous Birthdays on June in 1816
18th » Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French noblewoman and reputed child of Napoleon (d. 1907)
19th » William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
Famous Deaths for June 1816
5th » Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)