Top Historical Events That Happened on July 11
Saturday, 15 August 2026
1616 Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec 

1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan. 

1649 Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies. 

1656 inaugural Quaker colonists land at Boston is born. 

1657 Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13). 

1662 Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern 

1667 John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried. 

1673 Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty 

1686 Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75. 

1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire). 

1690 Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75. 

1694 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer. 

1697 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer 

1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France 

1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979 

1738 Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands. 

1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne 

1740 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews 

1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire 

1754 Thomas Bowdler, British censor is born. 

1754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare 

1767 John Quincy Adams, Former (6th) American President is born. 

1767 John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Mass, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829). 

1768 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66. 

1774 Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer 

1776 In this year, Captain James Cook starts his third voyage 

1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of the US. 

1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US. 

1781 Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 

1792 Prussia army moves into French territory 

1798 Reestablishment of Marine Corps under the Constitution 

1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 

1798 US Marine Corps forms 

1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet 

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