Page 3: Historical Events In July - 06
Saturday, 07 February 2026
1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax. 

1793 Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49) 

1795 Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79. 

1796 Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia is born. 

1796 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55) 

1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained,... and removed as alien enemies" 

1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies" 

1800 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer 

1801 Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British 

1814 Justus McKinstry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 

1816 Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67. 

1818 Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66) 

1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 

1832 Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico 

1837 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer 

1840 Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin 

1847 SS Sea King, this paddle steamer which was plying the ferry trade between Belfast and Liverpool when it ran aground on the eastern end of Mew Island, Belfast Lough. It proven impossible to refloat her and she rolled over filled with water and sank, but there was no loss of life. 

1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo 

1852 John Albert Delany, composer. 

1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY) 

1853 In this year, William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," inaugural novel by black American. 

1854 The inaugural Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc. 

1854 1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc). 

1856 Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT 

1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine. 

1858 Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78 

1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916). 

1860 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37. 

1862 Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties) 

1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia 

1863 Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]. 

1863 Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies. 

1864 Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600. 

1864 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis) 

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