Historical Events In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1802  On July - 03 joseph Labitzky, composer   

1806  Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry on July - 03.   

1806  On July - 03 michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry   

1809  Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 on July - 03.   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie, Canada   

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie Canada on July - 03.   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on July - 03.   

1816  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas on July - 03.   

1816  Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65 on July - 03.   

1819  On July - 03 the first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings.   

1819  On this day in history 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors   

1819  On this day in history louis Theodore Gouvy, composer   

1821  F Kornberger, writer on this day in history.   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on July - 03.   

1839  The first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on this day in history.   

1839  1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students on July - 03.   

1841  On July - 03 john Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus   

1841  John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on July - 03.   

1844  On this day in history the last pair of Great Auks is killed.   

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on this day in history.   

1848  Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) on this day in history.   

1849  The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification on July - 03.   

1850  On July - 03 alfredo Kiel, composer   

1852  On this day in history congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)   

1853  Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan on July - 03.   

1855  Piotr Maszynski, composer on this day in history.   

1860  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist on July - 03.   

1861  On this day in history pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY   

1861  On this day in history colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

1861  On this day in history peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)   

1862  Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer on July - 03.   

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on this day in history.   

1863  Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends on July - 03.   

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1423  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) was born on this day in history.   

1442  Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) was born on this day in history.   

1530  Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) was born on July - 03.   

1567  Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) was born on July - 03.   

1676  On this day in history birth of leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)   

1683  On July - 03 birth of edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)   

1685  Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) was born on July - 03.   

1687  On this day in history birth of arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)   

0683  On July - 03 leo II, Pope (681-83), dies   

1090  On this day in history egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle   

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on July - 03.   

1642  On July - 03 maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69   

1672  On this day in history death of francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)   

1704  On July - 03 death of sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)   

1749  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on July - 03.   

1778  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies on this day in history.