Historical Events In July - 10

1686  On July - 10 ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76  

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

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

1690  On July - 10 domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39  

1692  On July - 10 bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung  

1692  Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged on this day in history.  

1697  Francois Hanot, composer on July - 10.  

1723  On July - 10 william Blackstone, England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)  

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye on this day in history.  

1759  On July - 10 eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer  

1762  Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey on this day in history.  

1762  On July - 10 johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76  

1775  Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army on July - 10.  

1778  American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain on this day in history.  

1778  Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master on this day in history.  

1779  Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer on July - 10.  

1792  On July - 10 george Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)  

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

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

1797  On this day in history pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)  

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

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

1810  Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France on July - 10.  

1818  On July - 10 john Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

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

1821  On July - 10 christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)  

1824  Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician on this day in history.  

1826  Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer on July - 10.  

1830  Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism) on July - 10.  

1832  On July - 10 pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US  

1833  Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on this day in history.  

1834  James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother) on July - 10.  

1835  On this day in history henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)  

1838  On this day in history willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43  

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1419  On July - 10 birth of emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)  

1452  King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) was born on July - 10.  

1509  On this day in history birth of john Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian  

1517  Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop was born on this day in history.  

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

1592  On this day in history birth of pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)  

1614  Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.  

1625  Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) was born on this day in history.  

0138  Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies on July - 10.  

0518  On this day in history anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies  

0649  On this day in history death of li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)  

0983  Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies on this day in history.  

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

1099  Death of El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044) on July - 10.  

1103  On July - 10 erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies  

1290  Death of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262) on July - 10.