Historical Events Happened In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  Share it »

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  Share it »

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on this day in history.  Share it »

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on this day in history.  Share it »

1814  On this day in history janis Cimze, composer  Share it »

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

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on this day in history.  Share it »

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.  Share it »

1819  1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors on this day in history.  Share it »

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer  Share it »

1821  F Kornberger, writer on this day in history.  Share it »

1828  On this day in history john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865  Share it »

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

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.  Share it »

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  Share it »

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  Share it »

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

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer  Share it »

1848  On this day in history slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)  Share it »

1849  On this day in history the French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.  Share it »

1850  On this day in history alfredo Kiel, composer  Share it »

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on this day in history.  Share it »

1853  On this day in history commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan  Share it »

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

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

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

1861  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on this day in history.  Share it »

1861  On this day in history peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)  Share it »

1862  On this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer  Share it »

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

1863  Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends on this day in history.  Share it »

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1676  On this day in history birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)  Share it »

1683  Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1685  On this day in history birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)  Share it »

1687  On this day in history birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)  Share it »

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

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on this day in history.  Share it »

1570  On this day in history death of antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67  Share it »

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

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on this day in history.  Share it »

1704  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on this day in history.  Share it »