Page 3: Historical Events In July - 27

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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1452  Ludovico sforza [il moro]: Italian duke of milan (1494 . .1500)   

1502  Pier francesco corteccia: Composer   

1518  Elizabeth talbot: Countess of shrewsbury/builder of country houses   

1609  Heinrich pape: Composer   

1612  Murad iv: Sultan of turkey (1623-40)/conquered baghdad   

1625  Edward montagu: England   

1667  Jean bernoulli: Mathematician   

1733  Jeremiah dixon: English surveyor and astronomer   

0082  St joseph of arimathea:   

0432  Death of Celestine i: Italian pope (422-32),   

0916  Kliment/clemens van ohrid: Bulgaria bishop of ohrid/saint,   

1101  Death of Koenrad: Rc-german king (1087-98),   

1128  Willem van normandia: Earl of flanders,   

1214  Death of Eustaes van machelen: Flemish knight,   

1227  Otto ii van lippe: Bishop of utrecht (1216-27),   

1233  Death of Ferrand of portugal: Earl of flanders,