Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  On this day in history 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  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on July - 03.   

1809  On July - 03 joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

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.   

1819  On July - 03 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  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 this day in history.   

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  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  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  On July - 03 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 on July - 03.   

1850  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.   

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on July - 03.   

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on this day in history.   

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on July - 03.   

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

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

1861  On July - 03 colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  On July - 03 peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  On July - 03 friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

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 July - 03.   

1442  On July - 03 birth of emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)   

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

1683  Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) was born on July - 03.   

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on July - 03.   

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on July - 03.   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on July - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1672  On July - 03 death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)   

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