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 July - 03.   

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

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

1809  On this day in history joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62   

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on July - 03.   

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

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.   

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

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 July - 03.   

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 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 July - 03.   

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

1846  On July - 03 achilles Alferaki, composer   

1848  On this day in history 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  On this day in history alfredo Kiel, composer   

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

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

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on July - 03.   

1860  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history 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  On July - 03 birth of louis XI, King of France (1461-83)   

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 this day in history.   

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 July - 03.   

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on this day in history.   

0683  On this day in history leo II, Pope (681-83), dies   

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on July - 03.   

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

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on this day in history.   

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on this day in history.   

1704  On July - 03 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 this day in history.