Historical Events In July - 13

1793  On this day in history french rev writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday  

1793  On July - 13 jean Paul Marat French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday  

1793  Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered on this day in history.  

1793  On this day in history john Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)  

1793  On this day in history jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday  

1794  Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria on this day in history.  

1811  On this day in history the birth of George G. Scott, British architect  

1813  Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1815  On July - 13 james Alexander Seddon, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1880  

1816  Gustav Freytag, writer on this day in history.  

1820  Commencement of the trial in Stirling for High Treason of the Radicals captured at the Battle of Bonnymuir. Two of the accused, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, were subsequently executed on 8 September 1820 on July - 13.  

1821  Nathan Bedford Forrest, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand Wizard on this day in history.  

1826  On July - 13 stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)  

1832  On this day in history source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)  

1836  On July - 13 uS patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels  

1837  Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to live in Buckingham Palace on July - 13.  

1837  Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace on this day in history.  

1844  On this day in history johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66  

1850  On this day in history hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)  

1851  On this day in history john F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton  

1854  US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua on this day in history.  

1859  On this day in history sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter  

1860  On July - 13 john Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69  

1861  Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) on July - 13.  

1861  On July - 13 robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 41  

1862  On this day in history battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150  

1863  Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die on this day in history.  

1863  Beginning of the New York draft riots, regarded as the worst in United States history on this day in history.  

1863  USS Wyoming battled Japanese warlord's forces on July - 13.  

1863  On this day in history emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)  

1863  On this day in history john S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major, dies at 32  

1864  On this day in history early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley  

1865  Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" on this day in history.  

1865  On July - 13 pT Barnum's museum burns down  

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1396  On this day in history birth of philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy  

1527  John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician was born on July - 13.  

1527  John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609) was born on July - 13.  

1579  On this day in history birth of arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)  

1590  On this day in history birth of clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italy, Pope (1670-76)  

1607  Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677) was born on July - 13.  

1608  Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57) was born on this day in history.  

1745  Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818) was born on this day in history.  

0574  On July - 13 john III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies  

0939  Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies on this day in history.  

1024  On July - 13 henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies  

1105  On this day in history rashi, [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki], Jewish intellectual, dies  

1205  Death of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England on this day in history.  

1309  On this day in history jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies  

1357  Death of Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313) on July - 13.  

1380  On July - 13 bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60