Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer   

1806  michael Keens exhibits inaugural cultivated strawberry.   

1806  michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry.   

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  americans capture Fort Erie, Canada.   

1814  americans capture Fort Erie Canada.   

1814  janis Cimze, composer.   

1816  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence results in the deaths of 150 in calm seas   

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65   

1819  The inaugural bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2807 deposited in the Bank for Savings   

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

1819  louis Theodore Gouvy, composer.   

1821  f Kornberger, writer.   

1828  john Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865.   

1839  the inaugural state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students.   

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students   

1841  john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it leads to in the motion of Uranus.   

1841  john Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it leads to in the motion of Uranus.   

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed   

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)   

1849  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   

1852  congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif).   

1853  commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan.   

1855  piotr Maszynski, composer.   

1860  charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist.   

1861  pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY.   

1861  colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general.   

1861  Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  friedrich Ernst Koch, composer.   

1862  william Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40.   

1863  battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends.   

1863  battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North.   

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on July - 03.   

1442  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on this day in history.   

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

1567  On July - 03 birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

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

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

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

1687  On July - 03 birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)   

0683  On July - 03 leo II, Pope (681-83), dies   

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

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

1642  On July - 03 maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69   

1672  On July - 03 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 this day in history.   

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