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)   

1442  Emperor go-tsuchimikado of japan: Emperor go-tsuchimikado of japan (d. 1500)   

1530  Claude fauchet: French historian   

1567  Samuel de champlain: Explorer (lake champlain)   

1676  Leopold i: Prince of anhalt-dessau, prussian field marshal   

1683  Edward young: English poet (revenge, complaint)   

1685  Sir robert rich: 4th baronet, british cavalry officer   

1687  Arnold hoogvliet: Dutch poet (abraham the patriarch)   

0683  Death of Leo ii: Pope (681-83),   

1090  Death of Egbert ii van brunswick: Fries count,   

1570  Antonio paleario: Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67   

1642  Death of Maria de' medici: French queen-mother,   

1672  Death of Francis willughby: English biologist (b. 1635)   

1704  Death of Sophia alekseyevna: Regent of russia (b. 1657)   

1749  Death of William jones: Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)   

1778  Death of Jean-jacques rousseau: French writer/composer (pygmalion),