Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on July - 03.   

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on this day in history.   

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

1806  On July - 03 michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry   

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

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

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

1814  On July - 03 janis Cimze, composer   

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

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

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

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

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.   

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer   

1828  On this day in history 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  John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on this day in history.   

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

1844  On July - 03 the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

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

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.   

1850  On July - 03 alfredo Kiel, composer   

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

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on July - 03.   

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  On July - 03 charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist   

1861  On July - 03 pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY   

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

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

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.   

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on July - 03.   

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 July - 03 birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

1530  On July - 03 birth of claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)   

1567  On this day in history birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1090  On July - 03 egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle   

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

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  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on July - 03.   

1778  On this day in history jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies