Page 2: Historical Events In July - 10

1686  Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1692  On July - 10 bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung   

1692  Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged on July - 10.   

1697  On this day in history francois Hanot, composer   

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

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye on July - 10.   

1759  Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer on July - 10.   

1762  On July - 10 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 this day in history 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 July - 10 alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer   

1792  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history the Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.   

1810  On July - 10 emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France   

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

1820  On this day in history 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  On July - 10 theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer   

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

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  On July - 10 james A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)   

1835  Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou) on this day in history.   

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

1509  John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian was born on this day in history.   

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

1526  On July - 10 birth of philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien   

1592  On July - 10 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 July - 10.   

0138  On this day in history publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies   

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

0649  Death of Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599) on July - 10.   

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

1103  On this day in history erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies   

1290  On this day in history death of king Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)