Page 2: Historical Events In July - 03

1801  Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 on July - 03.   

1802  Joseph Labitzky, composer on July - 03.   

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

1806  Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry on this day in history.   

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

1814  Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada on this day in history.   

1814  On July - 03 americans capture Fort Erie Canada   

1814  Janis Cimze, composer on this day in history.   

1816  French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas on this day in history.   

1816  On July - 03 dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65   

1819  The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings on this day in history.   

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

1819  Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer on July - 03.   

1821  On July - 03 f Kornberger, writer   

1828  John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on this day in history.   

1839  On July - 03 the first state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students   

1839  On this day in history 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students   

1841  John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on this day in history.   

1841  John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus on this day in history.   

1844  The last pair of Great Auks is killed on July - 03.   

1846  Achilles Alferaki, composer on July - 03.   

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  Alfredo Kiel, composer on July - 03.   

1852  Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) on July - 03.   

1853  On July - 03 commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan   

1855  On this day in history piotr Maszynski, composer   

1860  On this day in history charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist   

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

1861  On July - 03 colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general   

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

1862  On this day in history friedrich Ernst Koch, composer   

1862  William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 on July - 03.   

1863  On July - 03 battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends   

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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 July - 03.   

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

1567  On July - 03 birth of samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)   

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  On July - 03 birth of sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)   

1687  Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch) was born on this day in history.   

0683  Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies on July - 03.   

1090  Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle on July - 03.   

1570  Death of Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 on this day in history.   

1642  Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 on this day in history.   

1672  Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) on July - 03.   

1704  Death of Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) on this day in history.   

1749  Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) on this day in history.   

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