Historical Events In July - 10

1686  On this day in history ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76  

1690  Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet on July - 10.  

1690  On July - 10 battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet  

1690  Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39 on this day in history.  

1692  Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung on this day in history.  

1692  On July - 10 bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged  

1697  Francois Hanot, composer on July - 10.  

1723  William Blackstone, England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) on July - 10.  

1746  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye  

1759  On this day in history eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer  

1762  On this day in history roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey  

1762  On this day in history johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76  

1775  On July - 10 horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army  

1778  On July - 10 american Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.  

1778  On July - 10 sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master  

1779  On July - 10 alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer  

1792  George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49) on this day in history.  

1796  Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers on July - 10.  

1797  1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila on this day in history.  

1797  Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) on July - 10.  

1800  The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent on this day in history.  

1806  On July - 10 the Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.  

1810  On this day in history emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France  

1818  On this day in history john Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

1820  On July - 10 andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872  

1821  Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers) on July - 10.  

1824  On July - 10 rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician  

1826  On July - 10 theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer  

1830  On July - 10 camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism)  

1832  Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US on July - 10.  

1833  Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on July - 10.  

1834  On this day in history james A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)  

1835  Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou) on July - 10.  

1838  Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43 on this day in history.  

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1419  Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) was born on July - 10.  

1452  On this day in history birth of king James III of Scotland (d. 1488)  

1509  On July - 10 birth of john Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian  

1517  On this day in history birth of odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop  

1526  Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien was born on July - 10.  

1592  Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) was born on July - 10.  

1614  On this day in history birth of arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)  

1625  On this day in history birth of jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)  

0138  On July - 10 publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies  

0518  On July - 10 anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies  

0649  Death of Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599) on this day in history.  

0983  Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies on July - 10.  

1086  Death of Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered on this day in history.  

1099  On this day in history death of el Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)  

1103  Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies on July - 10.  

1290  Death of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262) on this day in history.