What happened on 3 June?

5 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1865 Born: George V Wartime king who renamed the dynasty Windsor and helped invent the modern monarchy.
2. 1992 Mabo decision Australian High Court overturns terra nullius and recognises native title.
3. 1839 Lin Zexu destroys the opium at Humen The emperor's incorruptible commissioner blockades the foreign merchants at Canton, confiscates 20,000 chests of British opium, and spends 23 days dissolving over a thousand tonnes
4. 1947 Mountbatten Plan Plan announcing the partition of British India into India and Pakistan.
5. 1831 Merthyr Rising Ironworkers and miners rise against wage cuts and debtors in Merthyr Tydfil; the red flag is flown for the first time as a workers' banner before troops retake the town.