Historical Events In July - 10

1686  Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76 on July - 10.   

1690  Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet on this day in history.   

1690  Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet on July - 10.   

1690  Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39 on July - 10.   

1692  Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung on this day in history.   

1692  Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged on this day in history.   

1697  Francois Hanot, composer on July - 10.   

1723  William Blackstone, England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) on this day in history.   

1746  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye   

1759  On July - 10 eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer   

1762  On July - 10 roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey   

1762  Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76 on July - 10.   

1775  On July - 10 horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army   

1778  On July - 10 american Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.   

1778  Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master on July - 10.   

1779  Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer on July - 10.   

1792  George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49) on July - 10.   

1796  Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers on July - 10.   

1797  1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila on July - 10.   

1797  Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) on this day in history.   

1800  The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent on this day in history.   

1806  On this day in history the Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.   

1810  Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France on July - 10.   

1818  John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

1820  On this day in history andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872   

1821  Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers) on July - 10.   

1824  Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician on this day in history.   

1826  On July - 10 theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer   

1830  Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism) on this day in history.   

1832  On July - 10 pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US   

1833  Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on this day in history.   

1834  James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother) on this day in history.   

1835  On this day in history henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)   

1838  On this day in history willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43   

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1419  On July - 10 birth of emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)   

1452  On this day in history birth of king James III of Scotland (d. 1488)   

1509  John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian was born on July - 10.   

1517  Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop was born on July - 10.   

1526  Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien was born on this day in history.   

1592  Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) was born on July - 10.   

1614  On July - 10 birth of arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)   

1625  Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) was born on this day in history.   

0138  Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies on this day in history.   

0518  Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies on this day in history.   

0649  Death of Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599) on this day in history.   

0983  On this day in history benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies   

1086  Death of Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered on this day in history.   

1099  Death of El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044) on July - 10.   

1103  On this day in history erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies   

1290  Death of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262) on this day in history.