Template:On this day/June 1

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

June 1:

• 1779 – By a narrow margin on the second ballot the General Assembly elected Thomas Jefferson governor of Virginia to succeed Patrick Henry. Jefferson won a second one-year term the following year. He took office well into the Revolutionary War, at a time when enthusiasm for the cause had waned.
• 1890 – The official population count of the returns made under the Eleventh Census. The total population of the City of Charlottesville was 5,591; while the population in 1880 was 2,676, an increase during the decade of 2,915 - or 108.93%
• 1948 – James E. Bowen Jr. succeeded Seth Burnley as Charlottesville's interim City Manager.
• 2023 – Charlottesville Tomorrow's board of directors gave Cvillepedia to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library for continued stewardship.