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 this day in history.  

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

1690  Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39 on July - 10.  

1692  Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung on July - 10.  

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

1697  Francois Hanot, composer on July - 10.  

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

1746  On July - 10 bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye  

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

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

1762  Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76 on July - 10.  

1775  On this day in history 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 this day in history sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master  

1779  On this day in history alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer  

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

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 July - 10.  

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

1800  On July - 10 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 this day in history.  

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

1824  Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician on July - 10.  

1826  Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer on this day in history.  

1830  On this day in history camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism)  

1832  Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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  On this day in history 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 July - 10.  

1526  Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

0518  Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies on this day in history.  

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

0983  On July - 10 benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies  

1086  Death of Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered on July - 10.  

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

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.