Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  On this day in history johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56   

1802  On this day in history joseph Labitzky, composer   

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry   

1806  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on this day in history.   

1809  On July - 03 joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on this day in history.   

1816  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas on this day in history.   

1816  On this day in history dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65   

1819  The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings on this day in history.   

1819  1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors on July - 03.   

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.   

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer   

1828  On July - 03 john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865   

1839  On this day in history the first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students   

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on July - 03.   

1841  On this day in history john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1841  On this day in history john Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on this day in history.   

1846  On July - 03 achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on July - 03.   

1849  The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification on this day in history.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.   

1852  On July - 03 congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)   

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on this day in history.   

1855  On July - 03 piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on this day in history.   

1861  Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY on this day in history.   

1861  On July - 03 colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  On July - 03 peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  On this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

1862  On this day in history william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40   

1863  On July - 03 battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends   

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1423  On this day in history birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)   

1442  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on July - 03.   

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on July - 03.   

1676  Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) was born on July - 03.   

1683  On this day in history birth of edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)   

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on July - 03.   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on this day in history.   

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on July - 03.   

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on July - 03.   

1642  On this day in history maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69   

1672  On this day in history death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)   

1704  On this day in history death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)   

1749  On this day in history death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)   

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on July - 03.