Page 3: Historical Events In July - 27
Thursday, 12 March 2026
1816 US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves 

1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers). 

1822 Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60. 

1824 Alexandre Dumas, French author is born. 

1824 Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille). 

1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies. 

1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X 

1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26. 

1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded 

1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC 

1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England 

1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers). 

1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies 

1844 Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC. 

1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC 

1844 John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77. 

1848 Vladimir de Pachmann, painter 

1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator. 

1861 Union Gen George McClellan took command of Potamic Army 

1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA 

1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico 

1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40000 die. 

1864 Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains). 

1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies. 

1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina. 

1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1686 miles long) 

1866 Cyrus W. Field lays the inaugural successful underwater telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe (after two failed attempts). 

1870 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) 

1872 Stanislav Binicki, composer. 

1878 Th to de Weeme, painter 

1879 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #200 Dynamene 

1879 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza). 

1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson was wounded, breaks out 

1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil 

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