Patrick Henry ( May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799 ) was an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

The definitive metre bar, manufactured from platinum, was presented to the French legislative assembly on 22 June 1799.

Rome was occupied by France ( 11 July – 28 September 1799 ) and again by Naples ( 30 September 1799 – 23 June 1800 ), bringing an end to the Roman Republic.

He married Charlotte Small on June 10, 1799 at Île-à-la-Crosse, a mixed-blood child of a Scottish fur trader Patrick Small and a Cree mother.

Brown was tried in June 1799.

When Austria restored the old regime, Rossini's father was sent to prison in 1799 where he remained until June 1800.

* 1799 December 10The French National Assembly specifies the platinum metre bar, constructed on 23 June 1799 and deposited in the National Archives, as the final standard.

* June 8 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss author, painter, and caricature artist ( b. 1799 )

* June 27 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist ( d. 1799 )

Promoted to lieutenant on 21 May 1799, Somers was detached from United States on 13 June 1801 and ordered to Boston on 30 July 1801.

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier ( 26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810 ) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier ( 6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799 ) were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique.

Marie-Thérèse married her cousin Louis Antoine on 9 June 1799, at Jelgava Palace.

Charles lived in Edinburgh and London with his mistress Louise de Polastron His older brother, dubbed Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew in June 1795, relocated to Verona and then to Jelgava Palace, Mitau, where Charles's son, Louis Antoine, married Louis XVI's only surviving child, Marie Thérèse on 10 June 1799.

David Douglas ( 25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834 ) was a Scottish botanist.

Alexander von Humboldt's Latin American expeditionArmed with powerful recommendations from the King of Spain, they sailed in the Pizarro from A Coruña, on June 5, 1799, stopped six days on the island of Tenerife to climb the volcano Teide, and landed at Cumaná, Venezuela, on July 16.

Patrick Henry ( May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799 ) was an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

Three months prior to taking his seat, he died of stomach cancer on June 6, 1799, while at Red Hill, his plantation.

The definitive metre bar, manufactured from platinum, was presented to the French legislative assembly on 22 June 1799.

Henry, on his deathbed June 6, 1799, gave the land to two of his sons, Alexander Spottswood Henry and Nathaniel West Henry.

In France, after the revolution of Prairial ( June 18, 1799 ), the so-called law of hostages was passed, to meet the royalist insurrection in La Vendée.

The Dudley Canal extension through the Lappal tunnel was opened in early 1798, and with progress being made on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, the Company obtained a third act of Parliament on 21 June 1799, which allowed it to raise more money, and included a diversion of the route further to the east near Lapworth, so that the length of the connecting link to the Warwick and Birmingham was only about.

Dr. Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States ) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944 ) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

* June 10 – Benjamin Shapira, a German-born Israeli biochemist and recipient of the Israel Prize ( d. 1993 )

* June 6 – Franklin College, named for Benjamin Franklin, opens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

* June 19 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral and United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief ( b. 1822 )

* June 3 – Benjamin McCandlish, Governor of Guam ( d. 1975 )

* June 15 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity, using a kite and a key.

The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief ( June 14 ), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general ( July 26 ) and creating a Continental Navy ( October 13 ) and a Marine force ( November 10 ) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British ( June 12 ) and American ( July 15 ) governments make laws.

* June 19 – Benjamin Tasker, Provincial Governor of Maryland ( b. 1690 )

* June 4 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer ( d. 1776 )

After being ratified in the Senate on April 8, 1890 by a vote of 51-1, the Sherman Act passed unanimously ( 242-0 ) in the House of Representatives on June 20, 1890, and was then signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 2, 1890.

Arnold remained in control of the fort until 1, 000 Connecticut troops under the command of Benjamin Hinman arrived in June 1775.

By June 29, 1892, Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin Harrison to announce a proclamation making the public school flag ceremony the center of the Columbus Day celebrations ( this was issued as Presidential Proclamation 335 ).

At daylight on June 3, two columns of Union forces under the command of Col. Benjamin Franklin Kelley and Col. Ebenezer Dumont, with perhaps 3, 000 men, arrived from Grafton and attacked about 800 poorly-armed Confederate recruits under the command of Col. George A. Porterfield.

At 9: 45 a. m. on June 10, a brigade of Benjamin H. Grierson's Union cavalry division reached Brice's Crossroads and the battle started at 10: 30 a. m. when the Confederates performed a stalling operation with a brigade of their own.

Piano Activities, by Philip Corner, as performed in Wiesbaden, 1962, by ( l-r ) Emmett Williams, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Benjamin Patterson and George Maciunas

Chamberlain eventually rejected the possibility of standing in Sheffield again, and when George Dixon to retired from his Birmingham seat in May 1876, Chamberlain was returned unopposed ( 17 June 1876 ) for the Birmingham constituency, after a period of anxiety following his nomination in which he denounced the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, accusing him of being ' a man who never told the truth except by accident.

Union General Benjamin Grierson occupied Clinton on June 7, 1863, a month before the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The settlement was founded in 1830 by Benjamin Redding and a post office named " Redding's Mills " opened on June 17, 1850.

In June 1775, soon after the Battle of Lexington, local troops were raised to fight the British in the American Revolution under the command of Benjamin Chambers's eldest son Captain James Chambers, as part of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.

At daylight on June 3, two columns of Union forces under the command of Col. Benjamin Franklin Kelley and Col. Ebenezer Dumont, with perhaps 3, 000 men, arrived from Grafton and attacked about 800 poorly-armed Confederate recruits under the command of Col. George A. Porterfield.

Pierre Paul Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Bordeaux, France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleon ’ s service.