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  On this day in history michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry  

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

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

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie, Canada  

1814  On this day in history americans capture Fort Erie Canada  

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 July - 03.  

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer  

1828  On July - 03 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  On July - 03 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students  

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

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

1861  Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general on July - 03.  

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

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.  

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

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  On July - 03 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  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on July - 03.  

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