Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  On July - 03 johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56   

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on this day in history.   

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

1806  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry   

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on July - 03.   

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

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.   

1814  On July - 03 janis Cimze, composer   

1816  On July - 03 french frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas   

1816  On July - 03 dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65   

1819  On July - 03 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  On this day in history 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors   

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history f Kornberger, writer   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on July - 03.   

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

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 July - 03 john Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1844  On this day in history the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on this day in history.   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on this day in history.   

1849  On July - 03 the French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.   

1852  On this day in history congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)   

1853  On this day in history commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan   

1855  On July - 03 piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  On this day in history charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist   

1861  On this day in history pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY   

1861  On this day in history colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

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

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on this day in history.   

1862  On July - 03 william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1676  On July - 03 birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on July - 03.   

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on July - 03.   

1704  On July - 03 death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)   

1749  On July - 03 death of william Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)   

1778  On July - 03 jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies