Page 2: Historical Events In July - 11
Saturday, 21 February 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. 

1789 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 

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 

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