What happend on 5th June

04.06
06.06
1915

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

1907

BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

1900

Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

1866

Calculations indicate Pluto reached its most recent aphelion (furthest point from Sun) on this day. The next aphelion will occur in August 2113.

1864

American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.

1851

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

1849

Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.

1837

Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.

1829

HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

1817

First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.