Page 2: Historical Events In July - 02
Friday, 06 February 2026
1644 William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24. 

1647 Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs 

1652 Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans). 

1663 Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64. 

1679 Europeans inaugural visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth. 

1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason. 

1687 King James II disbands English parliament 

1698 Thomas Savery patents the inaugural steam engine 

1700 Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77. 

1708 Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies 

1714 Christoph von Gluck, German composer is born 

1714 Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore). 

1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet. 

1737 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer 

1743 Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies 

1746 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer. 

1756 Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl 

1763 Peter Ritter, composer 

1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States". 

1776 NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds right to vote. 

1777 Vermont is recorded as becoming inaugural American colony to abolish slavery 

1777 Vermont is recorded as becoming 1st American colony to abolish slavery. 

1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66. 

1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 

1793 Antoine Prumier, composer. 

1794 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria. 

1794 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65. 

1798 John Fitch American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 

1798 John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies. 

1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down the Fraser River , BC, and lands at Musqueam 

1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam 

1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885 

1814 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer 

1821 Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896) 

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